The ultimate shoe has dropped in the Brittany Griner case and there are the simplest two other folks on Earth who can assist set her unfastened, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. and Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. Yes, Putin’s center identity is in reality simply an extension of his first identity however we digress.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the American basketball megastar had her enchantment rejected as of late as a last-ditch effort to get her unfastened from her 9-year jail sentence on ownership of cannabis oil conviction. At this level, the Russian felony gadget has run its direction the United States executive goes to have to place in some actual paintings to get Brittany’s house. This tale isn’t about to depart. People won’t put out of your mind Brittany’s identity and rattling certain gained prevent advocating for her liberate. If she’s now not housed via the following presidential election, perfectly consider the query will likely be posed to whoever the applicants of the time being.
It feels disingenuous to speak about “silver linings” however U.S. diplomatic ambassador Elizabeth Rood made a point out of a minor exchange that the court docket made to Griner’s sentence:
“The appeals court made a slight reduction in her sentence for time served in pretrial detention, but otherwise did not change the excessive and disproportionate sentence of nine years in a penal colony.”
The court docket’s three-judge panel dominated that every day that Ms. Griner spent in pretrial detention would depend for one-and-a-half days served on the penal colony, however “the rest of the sentence is unchanged,” the judges stated.
Gee, thank you. #FreeBG ’til it’s backward.
