That wasn’t for the initial charges. That was what she got after being found guilty (although it again sounds like it was a massive overreach) of sending threatening text messages.
> “She was convicted of sending five text messages,” Birch sighs. “There wasn’t one threat in any of them. All the messages said was, ‘You should be aware of what your daughters are posting.’” He claims that a fair trial was impossible, after all the publicity his client had received, saying,“Any jury would be poisoned.”