The seriousness of the lawyer’s statements is borderline desperate, he knows less than 1% of defendants in criminal cases are acquitted in that country.
The basketball player’s lawyer Brittney Griner, Lindsay Kagawa Colas, make a desperate request to white house before the imminent trial against his client that will begin on July 1 at Russia. He appealed to the administration Biden made a deal for the athlete to return to the country since then “He was used as a political pawn.”
“Today’s hearing is administrative in nature. That said, the U.S. government has determined that Brittney Griner was illegally detained and used as a political pawn. Negotiations for her imminent release, regardless of the outcome of the legal process, it should be a priority and we hope the president and vice president will do everything they can now to reconcile and bring him home “stated Lindsay Kagawa Tails. Statistics show that less than 1% of people are acquitted after criminal trials in Russia. the lawyer of Griner There is almost no hope that the trial that starts on July 1 will be a successful conclusion and in which his client is faced with drug trafficking cases on a large scale and could be imprisoned for 10 years.
Griner was arrested when he tried to enter Russia through Moscow airport and in his belongings they found vaporizer cartridges, electronic cigarettes, with cannabis.

Various Russian media thought about an exchange of prisoners. The United States will host WNBA player and Paul Whelan, a former Marine and security director serving a 16-year sentence for spying; and Russia will bring back an arms dealer named Viktor Bout and dubbed “The Merchant of Death,” who was imprisoned in the United States with a 25-year sentence for conspiracy to murder American citizens and aiding a terrorist organization.
Source: Tycsports

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