FILE - In this file picture taken on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, Marian Kocner, right, the suspected mastermind in the slaying of an investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova and suspected shooters Miroslav Marcek, center, and Tomas Szabo, left, are escorted by armed police officers from a courtroom during a trial session in Pezinok, Slovakia. On Monday April 6, 2020. A court in Slovakia is expected to issue a verdict on Thursday Sept. 3, 2020, in the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee, a crime that shocked the country and led a government to fall. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek/File)
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