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Either everyday life or interpersonal relations were the reason but relationships between Larisa Gevorgyan and her neighbors Ararat Yesayan and his family from the same 54 Tigran Mets Street in Vanadzor were not at all good. On 5 July 2009 at 18:00 Tigran Yesayan, his wife Margarita Khazaryan and daughters Ashkhen and Emma Yesayan were coming home to the mentioned address when L. Gevorgyan made offensive remarks 'humiliating their honor and dignity'. The case fell into the Court.

On 22 January 2010 the Court of First Instance found L. Gevorgyan guilty and imposed her to pay a fine of 200 thousand AMD. On 18 May 2010 the Court of Appeals in its turn approved the decision of the Court of First Instance.

On that very same day May 18 the RA National Assembly adopted a Law on 'making amendments to the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia'. According to Article 1 of the Law Articles 135 and 136 of the Criminal Code of April 18 2003 lost their force.

L. Gevorgyan made a cassation appeal. While examining the case the Court of Cassation raises a question whether 'L. Gevorgyan must be charged when Article 136 of the RA Criminal Code on the grounds of which she was found guilty had been revoked.

According to Article 13 Section 1 of the RA Criminal Code ‘A law that eliminates criminality of the case or otherwise improves the situation of a person committed a crime has a retroactive force’.

Based on these and other relevant circumstances and guided by a number of relevant articles of the RA Constitution and the Criminal Procedure Code, the Court of Cassation decided to satisfy the complaint based on the lack of corpus delicti.