amazing spouse back at home. i never meant to hurt anybody. i never meant to put in jeopardy the russian population. i never meant to break any laws here. i made an honest mistake and i hope that it doesn t end my life here. i know everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics, but i hope that that is far from this courtroom. i want to say again that i had no intent on breaking any russian laws. i had no intent. i did not conspire or plan to commit this crime. i hope they can take into account all the documents, all the character lists everybody sent in on my behalf. i want to apologize to my teammates and the organization for any damage that i may have done to them. i never intended on hurting them. this is my second home and all i want to do is just win championships and make them proud. cnn senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is outside the courthouse near moscow. fred, visibly emotional, griner, apologizing to the court, taking responsibility fo
want to do is just win championships and make them proud. cnn senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is outside the courthouse near moscow. fred, visibly emotional, griner, apologizing to the court, taking responsibility for her actions there. you mentioned last hour moscow courts don t have a record for leniency, though? reporter: no, you re absolutely right, they certainly don t. i don t think it s something that can be expected of a moscow court and that dependence could rely on. if you look at the conviction rates for russian courts, they re around 99%, so that obviously is a huge number. if you look at some of the sentences recently doled out, like against mark fogle, he received 14 years in court so the sentences here usually here in russia are very high. nevertheless, brittney griner s defense team told me as far as russian courts go, they believe they have done as good a job as possible to try and get some sort of leniency. part of it was exactly for the