Frederick Chiluba, president from 1991 to 2001, will himself face a verdict in July on corruption charges.
But Ms. Kazakova still faced a verdict, and her supporters had said that given how the case had already been conducted, they expected a guilty verdict and a prison sentence.
As a result, Mr. Berlusconi could face a verdict later this year, as he sits at the top of Italian government and as Italy takes the rotating presidency of the European Union.
Those not sentenced on Saturday will face a verdict on March 9, the judge said.
There is already speculation that Mrs. Su could face a harsher verdict, a result that would appease the online critics but could also set an uneasy precedent for reformers trying to establish a genuine rule of law in China.
This farcical moment shows the racial tension and racial contempt underlying the theoretical fairness of the law-court: it is an interesting counterpoint to Mandela's own defiance in the dock as he faces a guilty verdict in 1962.
"If Turner's argument were accepted, the family who lost a member in the World Trade Center would be facing a situation where any verdict they win against Al Qaeda's frozen assets here would be reduced by the amount of charity the family has gotten from the Red Cross," Mr. Liman continued.
They could decide there is no justice and the universe is basically unfair; or they could settle on one of the Judeo-Christian versions, all of which give us one chance to get it right before facing a zero sum, binary verdict: the fiery furnace or Club Med for eternity, as Norman Mailer, a believer in reincarnation, once described it.
Instead, they now face a possible jury verdict of more than $300 million.
Mr. Du, who was taken into custody after the verdict, faces a prison sentence of up to seven years, the maximum that can be handed down by Hong Kong's District Court.
