Credit: Reuters/Athit Perawongmetha
Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (R) and Deputy Prime Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul arrive before a meeting with the Election Commission at the Royal Thai Air Force Academy in Bangkok April 30, 2014.
'The court makes an appointment to hand down its verdict on May 7 at midday,' a judge said after a hearing.
Yingluck faces charges relating to her transfer of National Security Council chief Thawil Pliensri in 2011, which opponents say was done to benefit her party.
The verdict could throw Thailand deeper into turmoil after six months of street protests aimed at ousting Yingluck. Her 'red shirt' supporters have vowed to respond if she is forced from office and have already arranged a big rally for May 10 near Bangkok.
(Reporting by Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Editing by Alan Raybould)
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