Brittney Griner Files Appeal Against Court Following 9-Year Sentence

The 31-year-old has been in custody in Russia since her February arrest, which saw her charged with smuggling of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their precursors, or analogues, and with illegal acquisition, storage, transportation, manufacture, processing of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, or their analogues. 

Griner pled guilty to all charges during her second hearing in early July, telling the court that she had not acted deliberately.