The Department of Justice announced via press release that the man who broke into Sarah Palin”s Yahoo email account was convicted.

After a week-long trial, a jury found [David C.] Kernell guilty of one count of misdemeanor unauthorized access to obtain information from a computer and one count of obstruction of justice. The jury found Kernell not guilty of wire fraud. The jury could not reach a verdict on the identity theft charge and the judge declared a mistrial as to that charge.