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The Brittany Griner trial in Russia has developed this cadence. The American basketball star

walks in, heavily guarded. She's often led by an officer with a fierce-looking dog.

And then she's put in a cage right behind her lawyers. Sometimes as things get started,

she'll hold up pictures of her wife, of her WNBA teammates. It seems like she's saying,

I've got people out there. Don't forget about me. Griner has already pleaded guilty to drug charges.

She got caught carrying vape cartridges filled with cannabis oil. And that's part of what makes

this spectacle so strange. This trial, it's going forward even though the Russian government

has already won. So I think what the Russians are looking for is a political win on the propaganda side.

Former journalist Doug Fera has been following Griner's trial from afar. The pictures are very

impactful and I think she looks like a prisoner and for someone, you know, in the cage,

it's certainly conveys that she's, you know, has no way out.

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