*Brittney Griner’s wife, Cherelle Griner appeared on “The View” recently to speak out about the WNBA star’s appeal being denied by a Russian court following her drug charge conviction.
Last month, Griner’s appeal of her nine-year prison sentence in Russia was rejected. As reported by The Jasmine Brand, Griner told the co-hosts that the denied appeal was “just disheartening”.
“I understand being in the field of law that every state, every country has their own rules, but this is just absurd. The crime and the punishment is disproportionate at its finest … There are people convicted of murder in Russia who [have] a sentence way less than B.G., and it just makes absolutely no sense to me.”
Cherelle continued, “That was the complete end of it. There’s nothing more to expect from a legal standpoint and all eggs are in basket, you know, for our government and for America to see how important this issue is. This could happen to anybody and we should be praying that we have a country that recognizes the importance of that and are willing to actually go get our Americans and bring them back home.”
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In February, Griner was detained by Russian customs after they found cartridges containing less than a gram of hashish oil in her luggage. She was arrested on drug charges and in August, the two-time Olympic gold medalist was sentenced to nine years in prison.
On October 25, Griner’s appeal was denied. “I beg that the court takes in all of the stakes that was overlooked in the first court and reassess my sentence here,” Brittney said during the hearing.
Griner believes her wife’s lengthy prison sentence is politically motivated.
“To see that the totality of the circumstances of who she is as a person was not taken into account when they rendered a decision, it makes me feel like this – at this point – has to be political.”
Cherelle told “The View” that she has only spoken to Brittney three times since Griner’s detainment back in February.
“Her mental it’s not there, and she told me, ‘I’m really just trying to hold on to the last bit of you that I can remember.’ We spoke only three times so far out of the eight months that [Brittney’s] been sentenced.”
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