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Vladivostok’s Prosecutor’s Office has announced plans to appeal the sentencing verdict against an Azerbaijan native who shot dead a Vladivostok man in a quarrel over the traffic incident in October 2006 after the man uttered insulting words into his address. The convicted man was first sentenced to seven years in prison but his lawyers appealed the ruling and he finally received a three-year suspended sentence.

Vladivostok’s Prosecutor’s Office intends to appeal the new sentence announced by the Leninsky court on November 15. The verdict, passed by the court against Nemat Gamidov, overturned a previous sentencing of seven years in prison on the grounds that Gamidov killed the victim in an emotionally excited state, a press statement from Primorye’s Prosecutor’s Office reported.

According to the statement, on October 4, 2006, Gamidov left his car during a traffic jam on Strelkovaya Street and shot the passenger in the other automobile who had insulted Gamidov’s ‘national dignity’. The victim made an offensive comment concerning Gamidov’s nationality when Gamidov tried to override his car in a traffic jam.

Gamidov was initially charged with murder and sentenced by Leninsky Court in June 2007 to a seven-year imprisonment. However, the verdict was later overturned by the court of appeals, and the case was sent for reconsideration. The second trial resulted in the milder three-year suspended sentence and a three-year probation period. According to a suspended sentence, the convicted is free to live without imprisonment, barring any future convictions, in which case he would serve the original sentence in addition to the new.

According to the statement, Vladivostok’s Prosecutor’s Office opposes Gamidov’s reconsidered sentence because the court rejected holding the complex psychiatric examination to determine whether the murderer was factually in a state of emotional excitement, the statement said.