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Brittney Griner: “People with more severe crimes have gotten less than what I was given”

Photo: Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS via ZUMA Press

In her final statement delivered via video from a detention center outside Moscow, weed-smuggler WNBA player Brittney Griner emphasized how mentally taxing her eight-month detention and two trials had been, adding:

“I was barely over the significant amount [of cannabis oil] … People with more severe crimes have gotten less than what I was given.”

“I did not intend to do this,” she closed, before asking the court to take into account the fact that she had pleaded guilty.


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