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One hundred sixty-eight days after Brittney Griner was arrested at an airport outside of Moscow, the WNBA star was found guilty of charges that she tried to smuggle drugs into Russia and was sentenced to nine years as her trial concluded Thursday.
A Russian court on Thursday sentenced US basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison over drug smuggling as US President Joe Biden called the ruling "unacceptable". The court "found the defendant guilty" of smuggling and possessing "a significant amount of narcotics", judge Anna Sotnikova told a court in the town of Khimki just outside Moscow. Sotnikova sentenced Griner, 31, to nine years in prison and said she would also have to pay a fine of one million rubles ($16,590). US President Joe Biden immediately released a statement, calling the Russian court's sentencing of Griner "unacceptable."
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Former CIA station chief Dan Hoffman joined 'America's Newsroom' to discuss the verdict.
By Anna Chernova, Zahra Ullah, Masha Angelova and Eric Levenson, CNN
American basketball star Brittney Griner was found guilty of drug possession and smuggling in Russian court on Thursday.
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