Criminal lawyer Maxim Kalinov spoke about the conviction of the American basketball player detained in Russia Britney Greiner .
On Thursday, August 4, 31-year-old Greiner was sentenced by the Khimki city court to 9 years in a penal colony in a drug trafficking case. The athlete was fined 1 million rubles, when announcing the verdict, the judge said that the American partially admitted her guilt.
Brittney Greiner’s sentence is hard. I believe it was possible to limit oneself to a lesser sentence, but the court decided otherwise. With respect to the appeal and possible mitigation of sentence, the defendant’s argument that she had not committed malice is unsubstantiated.
They do not correspond to the data available to the investigation, since a guilty verdict was rendered. He established that there was intent. Of course, you can file an appeal, check whether there were any violations during the investigation or simply try to reduce the duration.
This case could have taken on a political color, given that US President Joe Biden also spoke about it, so such a verdict could also be issued in connection with the difficult relations between the United States and Russia, the events in Ukraine, Gazeta.Ru cites Kalinov.
Greiner was arrested in February on suspicion of trying to smuggle hash oil through Sheremetyevo airport. She has been playing for UMMC Yekaterinburg since 2015, twice won the Olympics as part of the US team (2016, 2020).
Earlier, US media reported, citing a source in the Biden administration, that he supported plans to swap Russian Viktor Bout, who is serving a prison sentence in the US, for US citizens Greiner and Paul Whelan, who was sentenced in Russia to 16 years in prison for espionage.
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