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prosecutors as we speak are asking for a sentence of nine and a half years in prison. i m going to go straight to cnn s fred pleitgen who is live outside the courtroom near moscow. fred, what is the latest? what are we hearing about how that sentencing will go? yeah, i mean it really is significant information that we re getting, dana. first of all, you re absolutely right, the court has found brittney griner guilty. as we see on our screens right now, the judge is still sort of reading out the verdict and what exactly the specifics of this verdict are. but there s something that s very important that the judge has read in saying that they have found brittney griner guilty with criminal intent. that means that the court believes what the prosecution has said, that they believe that brittney griner intentionally took narcotics to the russian federation, obviously talking about those two vaping cart ridges. you ll recall one of the cases or one of the things that the de ....
Prosecutors as we speak are asking for a sentence of nine and a half years in prison. i m going to go straight to cnn s fred pleitgen who is live outside the courtroom near moscow. fred, what is the latest? what are we hearing about how that sentencing will go? yeah, i mean it really is significant information that we re getting, dana. first of all, you re absolutely right, the court has found brittney griner guilty. as we see on our screens right now, the judge is still sort of reading out the verdict and what exactly the specifics of this verdict are. but there s something that s very important that the judge has read in saying that they have found brittney griner guilty with criminal intent. that means that the court believes what the prosecution has said, that they believe that brittney griner intentionally took narcotics to the russian federation, obviously talking about those two vaping cart ridges. you ll recall one of the cases or one of the things that the defense team tried ....
Disappointed and no doubt, brittney griner will be, as well. nine years in a penal colony. one of the things the judges told me, dana, as they walked back into the courtroom before this last session started is they said if a verdict like this came down, they would go into an appeal process and of course, at the same time, of course, we have to tell the viewers there are those efforts by the united states to try to get a prisoner exchange for brittney griner, as well. this certainly an extremely tough verdict. we had been talking about the fact before that russian courts are known to be extremely tough, that the conviction rate is very high and certainly, the sentence is very high, as well. here you have nine years for brittney griner after being convicted of taking two vaping cartridges or trying to take them into the russian federation with the court establishing to be .7 of a gram total between the two cartridges and even that was called into question by the defense. nine years, very ....