It's all political

Fresno CA

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Griner’s trial was all but assured to end in a conviction regardless of her plea, experts have said. Her lawyers said they hoped her guilty plea would make the court more lenient. But Griner’s best hope for a quick return to the United States, experts said, is that the Biden administration finds a way to swap her for a high-profile Russian who is being held by the United States. The Kremlin (in other words, Putin) appears interested in linking the fate of Griner to that of Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer known as the Merchant of Death who is serving a 25-year prison sentence for conspiring to sell weapons to people who said they planned to kill Americans.