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.
