US basketball star Brittney Griner is hoping to return home from Russia where she is standing trial on charges of drug smuggling, her lawyer said on Tuesday, amid talk of a prisoner exchange with Washington.
Griner, twice an Olympic basketball gold medallist and Women's NBA champion who had played in Russia, was detained in February, only days before Moscow launched its military intervention in Ukraine.
The athlete, 31, was charged with drug smuggling for possessing vape cartridges allegedly containing cannabis oil and is on trial in Khimki, outside Moscow.
Griner appeared in court on Tuesday wearing a khaki T-shirt, looking down as she walked in and was placed in a defendants' cage, an AFP journalist reported.
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