text: Russian judge stabbed to death over $ 7 fine . MOSCOW 1996-08-30 A Moscow street vendor stabbed to death a woman judge in a city court on Friday after she fined him the equivalent of seven dollars for trading illegally , Interfax news agency said . Interfax said Judge Olga Lavrentyeva , 28 , on Thursday ordered the confiscation of several overcoats , suits and shirts which vendor Valery Ivankov , 41 , was illegally trading on Moscow streets and fined him 38,000 roubles ( seven dollars ) . The next morning , Ivankov appeared in the courtroom and stabbed Lavrentyeva . The judge died later in hospital . Interfax quoted Levrentyeva 's colleagues as saying that judges were generally unprotected against criminal attacks .