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prosecutors as we speak are asking for a sentence of nine and a half years in prison. i'm going to go straight to cnn's fred pleitgen who is live outside the courtroom near moscow. fred, what is the latest? what are we hearing about how that sentencing will go? >> yeah, i mean it really is significant information that we're getting, dana. first of all, you're absolutely right, the court has found brittney griner guilty. as we see on our screens right now, the judge is still sort of reading out the verdict and what exactly the specifics of this verdict are. but there's something that'...

You're absolutely right. we've before covering what has been going on with brittney griner basically since it was announced she was detained and announced by the u.s. that they believe she is wrongfully detained and throughout that process, you could see the defense build up a strategy to get a more lenient verdict and kept telling me they believe they were managing to do that as well as possible. she had pleaded guilty. she had said it was a mistake. she had shown respect for the russian courts and brought in character witnesses to say how important brittney griner was to international basket...