Brittney Griner Appeals Russian Drug Conviction

MOSCOW—Lawyers for U.S. ladies’s basketball star Brittney Griner filed an attraction in opposition to her conviction in Russia on medicine costs and her nine-year sentence in an try to safe a contemporary ruling within the case, her protection workforce mentioned.

“We are asking the court to review the whole case and pay attention to the inconsistency of the prosecutor’s evidence and to pay attention to our evidence and to come up with a new decision,” Alexander Boykov, a member of Ms. Griner’s authorized workforce, advised The Wall Street Journal on Monday.