Brittney Griner’s Appeal Rejected By Russian Court As Her Drug Smuggling Conviction Is Upheld

Brittney Griner’s appeal to her nine-year condemnation connected cause smuggling charges was rejected by a Russian tribunal connected Tuesday, October 25. While determination are inactive options for Griner to research earlier opening her sentence, her lawyers had not considered whether they would effort to instrumentality her lawsuit to either of Russia’s higher courts, according to The New York Times. Her lawyers said that they would “discuss” with the WNBA subordinate the adjacent steps successful a connection to The Times. “We mostly deliberation that we indispensable usage each the disposable ineligible tools, particularly fixed the harsh and unprecedented quality of her verdict,” they said. If her lawyers bash not entreaty the decision, Brittney, 32, volition statesman her nine-year condemnation astatine a penal colony.

Brittney’s lawyers explained that they felt determination were galore issues with the verdict that would assistance wide a way to state for the hoops player. “The verdict contains galore defects and we hoped that the tribunal of entreaty would instrumentality them into consideration,” they said successful the statement.