{"id":13682,"date":"2022-07-26T14:16:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T14:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/brittney-griner-texts-wife-from-russian-courtroom-good-luck-at-the-bar\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T14:16:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T14:16:26","slug":"brittney-griner-texts-wife-from-russian-courtroom-good-luck-at-the-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=13682","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner texts wife from Russian courtroom, &#8216;Good luck at the bar&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brittney Griner<\/strong> He spoke to a member of the media Tuesday for the first time since she was arrested in February in Russia &#8230; saying he had &#8220;no complaints&#8221; about her arrest, adding that he wanted to wish his wife &#8220;good luck in the bar exam&#8221;.  &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Griner, who returned to court Tuesday for another hearing in his drug case, spoke to an ABC News producer from behind bars in a Moscow courtroom.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brittney Griner told ABC News she wants to wish her wife, Cherelle Griner, &#8220;good luck on her bar exam&#8221; as the WNBA star&#8217;s drug trial resumes in Russia. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaggieRulli?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@maggierulli<\/a> reports <a href=\"\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qBBqpKfdqT\">pic.twitter.com\/qBBqpKfdqT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Good Morning America (@GMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMA\/status\/1551895670260383750?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 26, 2022<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMA\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@GMA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The outlet recorded the conversation, and in the audio, you can hear Griner calmly deliver the message <strong>Cherelle Grinner<\/strong> (who has been studying to become a lawyer), though he added that he is &#8220;just patiently waiting&#8221; for a resolution in his drug case.<\/p>\n<p>Brittney showed a photo of Cherelle minutes before the chat with the reporter.  He also wore a hoodie that read &#8220;Black Lives Are Loved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-basketball-star-griner-returns-russian-court-drugs-trial-2022-07-26\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Reuters<\/strong><\/a>Griner&#8217;s legal team argued that the WNBA star had used medical cannabis to help deal with her injuries and was not using the drug recreationally.<\/p>\n<p>            <span class=\"sr-only\">Play video content<\/span><\/p>\n<p>              <span class=\"media-credit video-block__media-credit\">customs.gov.ru<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As we reported, Griner has <strong>pleaded guilty<\/strong> to charges that he brought hash oil in his luggage at a Moscow airport in February, even though he said he had no intention of breaking Russian law.<\/p>\n<p>Griner faces up to 10 years in prison in the case.  He is due back for another court hearing later this week.<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/07\/26\/brittney-griner-sends-message-to-wife-from-russian-courtroom-good-luck-on-the-bar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brittney Griner He spoke to a member of the media Tuesday for the first time since she was arrested in February in Russia &#8230; saying he had &#8220;no complaints&#8221; about her arrest, adding that he wanted to wish his wife &#8220;good luck in the bar exam&#8221;. &#8220; Griner, who returned to court Tuesday for another hearing in his drug case, spoke to an ABC News producer from behind bars in a Moscow courtroom. Brittney Griner told ABC News she wants to wish her wife, Cherelle Griner, &#8220;good luck on her bar exam&#8221; as the WNBA star&#8217;s drug trial resumes in&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13684,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13682\/revisions\/13684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}