- Title: RUSSIA: COURT ADJOURNS IN RUSSIAN TYCOON MIKHAIL KHODOROVSKY VERDICT HEARING
- Date: 23rd May 2005
- Summary: (BN12)MOSCOW, RUSSIA (MAY 23, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV EXTERIOR OF COURT/ LINE OF POLICE MARCHING 0.07 2. SLV POLICE STANDING IN LINE 0.14 3. SLV POLICE REMOVING AIRPORT STYLE METAL DETECTORS FROM STREET 0.26 4. LV CONVOY OF CARS LEAVING COURT, CARRYING RUSSIAN TYCOON MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY AND CO-DEFENDANT OPLATON LEBEDEV BACK TO PRISON 0.42 5. MCU ROBERT AMSTERDAM, FROM KHODORKOVSKY'S TEAM OF AMERICAN LAWYERS SAYING: "They have clearly accelerated the reading, we perhaps have got through three times more than we had on Friday and at this rate, I think everyone should be very flexible as to when this may end. It may end much earlier than anticipated. Throughout the entire piece there has not be one factual inference relating to the defence which would suggest that the defence has even been heard in this case." 1.21 6. SV MEDIA 1.24 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
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- Story Text: Court adjourns in Khodorkovsky verdict hearing;
lawyers say summing up process has speeded up.
Judges on Monday (May 23) adjourned the court case
against Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, ending the
first day of summing up evidence at the start of the second
week of the court process.
The three judges, sitting without a jury in a Moscow
court, have said Khodorkovsky committed crimes relating to
all seven charges, leaving no doubt the eventual verdict
will be guilty.
Khodorkovsky's lawyers, who last week said the judges
were stringing out their judgement to kill off media
interest and spare the Kremlin's embarrassment over the
trial, said on Monday that the process appeared to have
been speeded up.
"They have clearly accelerated the reading, we perhaps
have got through three times more than we had on Friday and
at this rate, I think everyone should be very flexible as
to when this may end. It may end much earlier than
anticipated. Throughout the entire piece there has not be
one factual inference relating to the defence which would
suggest that the defence has even been heard in this case,"
said Robert Amsterdam, one of the defence lawyers on
Khodorkovsky's U.S. legal team.
The court session is set to resume on Tuesday (May 24)
at 0630GMT.
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