David Kernell, whose prying into Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account caused an uproar two months before the 2008 presidential election, was today sentenced to a year and a day by a judge in Knoxville, Tenn.

Kernell was convicted of misdemeanor computer fraud and felony obstruction of justice back in April. Rather Nixonian that – it wasn’t so much the crime as the cover-up.

His attorney had argued for probation on the grounds that what Kernell did amounted to a prank that spun out of control.

Good to see justice finally done to the prankster criminal son of a Democrat state legislator and member of Obama’s Tennessee campaign.

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