Publications / Justice Under Pressure: The Pre-Verdict Summary

This document has been prepared by defense counsel of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, former Yukos Oil Company CEO, and of his business partner and friend Platon L. Lebedev, who have been on trial since March 2009 in Moscow’s Khamovnichesky Court. The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of the pre-verdict trial proceedings, which ran from March 2009 to November 2010. More detailed information is available in a series of legal summaries issued by defense counsel as the case unfolded. Certain elements of the analysis herein may be impacted by the forthcoming verdict. A more detailed and definitive report, to be issued following the verdict, will supersede this document.

Read Justice Under Pressure: The Pre-Verdict Executive Summary here.