The trial was postponed after the defense filed a motion for more time to review the case and prepare objections.
Physicians from city hospital No. 20 were acquitted March 1 by the Moscow city court.
"The defendants' guilt was not confirmed in the course of the judicial examination," the verdict's text noted.
The prosecution accused the physicians and other staff from the Transplant Center of killing a man who was diagnosed with a "closed craniocerebral injury" on April 11, 2003.
The prosecution demanded that the head of the resuscitation department, Irina Lintsman, be sentenced to imprisonment for eight and a half years and that Dr. Lyubov Pravdenko be sentenced to eight years. They also demanded that two other doctors from the Moscow Coordinating Center for Organ Donorship, Pyotr Pyatnichuk and Bairma Shakdurova, be sentenced to nine years in prison.
However, the court ruled that "the doctors began to prepare for the operation to take the organs after the patient was declared dead."
