U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman could have sentenced Parson to as many as 37 months — the maximum end of the range agreed to by lawyers on both sides of the case.Parson will also face three years of supervision and 100 hours of community service after he is released.
Instead, she said she was swayed to a more lenient sentence because of Parson's history of mental-health problems and because his home life "sounds grimmer than many prison camps I've visited."
The Blaster worm caused a lot of damage in the Summer of 2003.
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