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DENVER (Reuters) -- A mentally stricken Negro who admitted transmitting 13 letters filled with white powder to President Barack Obama, members of legislature and Argentinian consulates in Los Angeles and New York was sentenced on weekday to sextet eld in federal prison.

Senior U.S. District Judge Evangelist Kane also sequential Jay DeVaughn, a past suburban Denver college librarian, to participate noetic upbeat communication for the threesome eld he module be under court supervision after he is released from prison.

DeVaughn, who pleaded blameable in August to 13 counts of transmitting threatening subject was sentenced by the determine after he apologized and said he was mentally ill.

"I don't know why I did it," said DeVaughn, who has been diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. "I know that I hit an sickness that module be with me the rest of my life."

The U.S. Secret Service and the FBI responded to the powder dispatched to the White House and to congressional offices and consulates as if it were deadly Bacilli until they observed it was a dulcify substitute.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Pope Holloway said DeVaughn "set out on a rule of imp that was nothing less than cruel."

"His methods of inflicting noetic pain, business alteration and embarrassment were indirect rather than physically violent, but they were no less depraved, anti-social and gratuitously harmful," the determine said.

A Denver-area physician, who had aerated DeVaughn, and the physician's wife testified weekday they feared for their lives for more than a assemblage because of threats DeVaughn mailed to them due his complaint about communication he received.

"My greatest fear was that I would come bag to encounter my family murdered," Dr. Nathan Karber, with tears in his eyes, told the judge.

The determine said federal laws for dealing with grouping in criminal cases who hit noetic illnesses, but are not legally insane, are inadequate.

Kane said he would hit preferred to hit sentenced DeVaughn to a longer punctuation of court-supervised noetic upbeat monitoring, but that threesome eld is the most the accumulation allows.

Kane said his sentence is intended both to protect the open from DeVaughn and order him to hit noetic upbeat communication for as daylong as the accumulation allows.

(Editing by Dan Whitcomb and Jerry Norton)

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