 Psychiatry experts at the Moscow Serbsky Institute found that Stomakhin was competent to stand trial.He was sentenced to five years of prison for inciting hatred and defamatory statements aimed at groups and persons of particular religious and ethnic background and for promoting violent change of constitutional regime and violation of territorial integrity of Russian Federation (articles 280 and 282 of the Russian Criminal Code).In five years after his arrest on 21 March 2011 Somakhin was released from jail.