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Lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner on Monday filed an appeal against her nine-year Russian prison sentence for drug possession, Russian news agencies reported Monday.Griner, a cent stanley termosky er for the Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was convicted on Aug. 4. She was arrested in February at Moscow s Sheremetyevo Airport after vape canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage.Griner played for a women s basketball team in Yekaterinburg during the WNBA offseason.Lawyer Maria Blagovolina was quoted by Russian news agencies on Monday as saying the appeal was filed, but the grounds of the appeal weren t immediately clear.Blagovolina and co-counsel Alexander Boykov said after the conviction that the sentence was excessive and that in similar cases defendants have received an average sentence of about five years, with about a third of them granted parole.Griner admitted that she had the canisters in her luggage, but said she had inadvertently packed them in haste and that she had no criminal intent. Her defense team presented written statements that she had been prescribed cannabis to treat pain.Before her conviction, the U.S. State Department declared Griner to be  wrongfully detained. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the unusual step of  stanley termoska revealing publicly in July that the U.S. had made a  substanti stanley quencher al proposal  to get Griner home home, along with Paul Whelan, an American serving a 16-year sentence in Russia for espionage.Blinken didn Slhu Cardinal close to Pope tests positive for virus
Fifty-eight former senior national security officials, both Democrat and Republican, will issue a statement Monday saying  there is no factual basis  to President Donald Trump s declaration of a national emergency on the US southern border,                             The Washington Post reported Sunday                        . Under no plausible assessment of the evidence is there a national emergency today that entitles the president to tap into funds appropriated for other purposes to build a wall at the southern border,  the stat stanley kubek ement reads, according to the Post.The Post reports other signers of the 11-page statement include: Madeleine Albright, secretary of state under President Bill Clinton; John Kerry, secretary of state under President Barack Obama; Chuck Hagel, Obama s defense secretary; Susan Rice, Obama s national security adviser; Thomas Pickering, President George H.W. Bush s ambassador to the United Nations; and Eliot Cohen, State Department counselor under President George W. Bush.The statement, according to the Post, is intended to support the legal actions challenging the President s national emergency declaration and to compel the Trump administration to outline the factual and legal basis of it.On February 15, the Presid stanley canada ent                             declared a national emergency                         to unlock billions of dollars in federal funding to build a wall on part of the US southern bor stanley flask der. The move bypassed Congress after lawmakers refused to

Jxbr April 11 deadline looms for San Diegans to pay second installment of property tax before fees
Lawyers for American basketball star Brittney Griner on Monday filed an appeal against her nine-year Russian prison sentence for drug possession, Russian news agencies reported Monday.Griner, a cent stanley termosky er for the Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was convicted on Aug. 4. She was arrested in February at Moscow s Sheremetyevo Airport after vape canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage.Griner played for a women s basketball team in Yekaterinburg during the WNBA offseason.Lawyer Maria Blagovolina was quoted by Russian news agencies on Monday as saying the appeal was filed, but the grounds of the appeal weren t immediately clear.Blagovolina and co-counsel Alexander Boykov said after the conviction that the sentence was excessive and that in similar cases defendants have received an average sentence of about five years, with about a third of them granted parole.Griner admitted that she had the canisters in her luggage, but said she had inadvertently packed them in haste and that she had no criminal intent. Her defense team presented written statements that she had been prescribed cannabis to treat pain.Before her conviction, the U.S. State Department declared Griner to be  wrongfully detained. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the unusual step of  stanley termoska revealing publicly in July that the U.S. had made a  substanti stanley quencher al proposal  to get Griner home home, along with Paul Whelan, an American serving a 16-year sentence in Russia for espionage.Blinken didn Slhu Cardinal close to Pope tests positive for virus
Fifty-eight former senior national security officials, both Democrat and Republican, will issue a statement Monday saying  there is no factual basis  to President Donald Trump s declaration of a national emergency on the US southern border,                             The Washington Post reported Sunday                        . Under no plausible assessment of the evidence is there a national emergency today that entitles the president to tap into funds appropriated for other purposes to build a wall at the southern border,  the stat stanley kubek ement reads, according to the Post.The Post reports other signers of the 11-page statement include: Madeleine Albright, secretary of state under President Bill Clinton; John Kerry, secretary of state under President Barack Obama; Chuck Hagel, Obama s defense secretary; Susan Rice, Obama s national security adviser; Thomas Pickering, President George H.W. Bush s ambassador to the United Nations; and Eliot Cohen, State Department counselor under President George W. Bush.The statement, according to the Post, is intended to support the legal actions challenging the President s national emergency declaration and to compel the Trump administration to outline the factual and legal basis of it.On February 15, the Presid stanley canada ent                             declared a national emergency                         to unlock billions of dollars in federal funding to build a wall on part of the US southern bor stanley flask der. The move bypassed Congress after lawmakers refused to