(18 May 2005) SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot anti-Khodorkovsky demo, poster that says "Khodorkovsky, your money smells of blood!"
2. Mid shot poster "It's time for the President to deal with robbers!"
3. Mid shot woman with a poster "Khodorkovsky go to jail!"
4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Nadezhda, (no last name) anti-Khodorkovsky protester:
"He should have behaved and paid taxes on time. If he's not paying taxes, if he hides them, then he should be in jail of course."
5. Wide shot poster "Putin, save us from Khodorkovskys!"
6. Set up Robert Amsterdam, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's lawyer
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Amsterdam, Mikhail Khodorkovsky's lawyer:
"Take a good look. It's absolutely an insult to the intelligence of the populace of not only this country but of Western countries, to talk about the leader of this country (Putin) as someone who believes in democracy. "
8. Wide shot people including Inna Khodorkovsky (Khodorkovsky's wife) going in to the court
9. Cutaway press
10. Wide shot Khodorkovsky's mother, Marina, and his father, Boris, in the court corridor
11. Mid shot Amsterdam in the corridor with Inna Khodorkovsky behind him
12. Close up Inna Khodorkovsky
13. Cutaway cameramen in corridor
14. Mid shot Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev being taken into court, handcuffed to guards
15. Close up guards outside court room
16. Tracking shot as cameraman goes into court room past soldiers, pans to Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev inside cage
17. Close up Lebedev writing in notebook
18. Close up Khodorkovsky
19. Cameramen
20. Khodorkovsky and Lebedev inside cage
STORYLINE:
Judges in a Moscow court have adjourned the lengthy reading of the verdict until Thursday in the politically charged trial of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky .
The reading of the verdict started on Monday.
His lawyers complained that the court has been reading the verdict for only a few hours a day in order to try to sap interest in the politically sensitive case.
Russian law requires verdicts to be read aloud.
Unlike the procedure in many Western courts, the verdict is not a simple pronouncement of guilty or not guilty but a laborious summation of the court's assessment of arguments by the prosecution and defence.
The final statement on guilt will be made only at the end of the review of both side's cases.
The court appears to be still far away from that point.
The stack of papers to be read is several centimetres (inches) thick and the reading gets through only about one page every 10 minutes.
However, the three days of the verdict reading leave little doubt that the court will find Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev guilty in the trial that includes charges of tax evasion, fraud and embezzlement.
In reading out the summation of witness testimony on one of the charges on Wednesday, Judge Irina Kolesnikova said she could not agree with the arguments of the defence.
The key question is how long a sentence Khodorkovsky will be given.
Defence lawyers have said this week that they were seeing signs he could get a lighter sentence than the 10 years prosecutors were demanding.
The trial of Khodorkovsky - the former head of the Yukos oil company who once commanded a fortune estimated at US 15 billion dollars has battered the reputation of Russia's judicial system and shattered business confidence in Russia.
A comparatively light sentence could be seen as aimed at blunting foreign criticism and reassuring investors.
Police had put up barriers and metal detectors on both sides of the street outside the Meshchansky courthouse.
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