text:  Yeah, you know, 99% of all criminal cases here end in conviction. And add to that that the Kremlin insisted that Dershkovich had been caught, quote, red-handed before the trial even began. So not a surprise. Yet the sudden race for the verdict here is going to fuel speculation of what many people have believed all along, that this case could only be resolved through political negotiations, a prisoner swap, in other words, between Washington and Moscow.