The WNBA star was found guilty on Thursday by a judge who rejected her claim she accidentally brought a marijuana pen into the nation. Prosecutors had requested that she be jailed for nine-and-a-half years, six months less than the maximum of 10 years in jail.
Her attorneys say they have ten days to appeal the verdict and sentencing and that the typical sentence handed down for such a crime is six years.
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After the announcement, Harris tweeted:"With today's sentencing, Russia continues its wrongful detention of Brittney Griner. She should be released immediately."
She continued that she and President Joe Biden "are working daily to reunite Brittney, as well as Paul Whelan, with loved ones who miss each of them dearly."
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Yet nearly instantly after she posted her condemnation of Griner's sentencing, people on Twitter pointed out that she locked up thousands of people on marijuana charges while she was the district attorney of San Francisco.
As author Tim Young wrote: "Brittney Griner got 9 years for drug possession in Russia... which sounds like most of the criminal sentences Kamala Harris got people for the same thing when she was attorney general of California."
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, as the district attorney, Harris oversaw over 1,900 marijuana convictions, and prosecutors in her office convicted people on marijuana charges at a higher rate than her predecessor, according to Mercury News.
A 2019 investigation by the Washington Free Beacon further discovered that between 2011 and 2016, while Harris was the California attorney general, no less than 1,560 people were sent to California state prisons on marijuana-related offenses.
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Although the number of low-level marijuana offenders sent to state prisons significantly decreased after 2011, that was attributed to a state-wide initiative to curb state prison overcrowding and divert lower-level offenders to county jails.
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Harris has further previously spoken out against the legalization of marijuana — actively fighting a ballot measure for recreational marijuana use in 2010 when she co-authored the opposition argument in a voter guide.
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By 2014, when she was the state's attorney general, law enforcement officers working for her state Department of Justice rented a helicopter to look for marijuana patches to raid without warrants, the San Francisco Weekly reported back then.
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They were using the "open fields doctrine," which meant that any marijuana stands not within the "curtilage" of a residence could be destroyed without a warrant after being spotted from the air.
Harris really just came out for legalizing marijuana in 2018 — after she was widely considered a presidential contender.
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