The Zonal District Court of the Altai Territory issued a guilty verdict on Friday against Oleg Shcherbinsky, the driver of the car that Governor Mikhail Evdokimov's Mercedes collided with on August 7, 2005. The court sentenced the defendant to 4 years in prison to serve the sentence in a penal colony. After the end of the hearing, motorists from Barnaul, Biysk and Novokuznetsk, who were not allowed to the court building by the police, blocked the exit from the Zonal District of the region in protest against what they considered to be an unfair verdict.