“He has not been previously tried.
Even the presence of one minor child is a mitigating circumstance, and Efremov has several of them.
He repented and pleaded guilty at the first interrogation.
I ask the court to reduce his sentence to four years in prison.
I ask you to consider this punishment conditional, ”TASS quoted him as saying.
Another lawyer for Efremov, Pyotr Kharkhorin, said that the actor has “in fact four dependent people,” and asked the court to mitigate the sentence to one that “would not allow him to be kept in custody.”
Earlier, the lawyer of the injured party in the case of an accident involving Efremov, Alexander Dobrovinsky, asked the court to leave the sentence to the actor unchanged.