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 MOSCOW (AP) - One day after a court adjourned to consider its ruling in the high profile trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, foreign lawyers for the jailed Russian oil tycoon said they expected a judge would convict him on what they called politically driven charges.
John Papalardo, a member of Khodorkovsky's legal team, said that the court would likely issue a guilty verdict when it reconvenes to issue its judgment on April 27 "as in any political prosecution."
Once Russia's richest man, Khodorkovsky has been imprisoned since his arrest at gunpoint in October 2003 in a case that observers call the Kremlin's retribution for his funding of opposition parties and a simultaneous attempt to take back control of the nation's strategically important oil sector.
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