CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto June 4, 2024 14:34:00
Make a deal, it doesn't have to work that way. in any case in any country in the world, the prosecutor can decide at any point to drop a case, even before a conviction and sentence happens. this is how it worked in russia before, so it is not a surprise this is what they were saying. it put brittney griner into an impossible situation where the conviction rate in a russian court is like 99.5%. and so she was i think really compelled and induced to plead guilty in order to not have this process play out forever. but that's no guarantee the russians will play ball. we have to wait and see. >> ju...