Loudoun Cty. courthouse

A Virginia judge sentenced a convicted spammer to nine years in jail, although the sentence was suspended pending appeal. The jury recommended the sentence, adopted without modification by the Loudoun County circuit judge. Defendant Jeremy Jaynes' lawyer complained that the sentence was too high, given the fact that the man was from out of state and the Virginia law used to prosecute him had been passed only two weeks before the incidents in question. Jaynes remains free on a bond of $1 million. His unsuccessful trial arguments hinged on free speech claims and an insistence that prosecutors failed to prove that his bulk email sending was unsolicited. The state told the jury that Jaynes pulled in as much as $750,000 per month.