(NewsNation) — A California woman who fatally stabbed her boyfriend 108 times will not go to jail and will instead serve two years of probation.

Bryn Spejcher was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of her boyfriend, Chad O’Melia. Her lawyers argued that she was suffering from cannabis-induced psychosis at the time of the stabbing.

O’Melia’s family has waited years for the sentencing and Spejcher was facing years behind bars, but was instead given community service and two years of probation.

Her defense attorney, Robert Schwartz, spoke exclusively to NewsNation and said his client did not get special treatment. Schwartz said expert testimony proved she wasn’t aware of her actions at the time.

“She didn’t know what was in the marijuana bong and had no reason to expect it would produce a violent reaction,” he said.

But the district attorney said the marijuana wasn’t laced with any other drugs and the case sets a dangerous precedent. He pointed to Spejcher’s actions after she stabbed O’Melia, in which she stabbed herself in the neck repeatedly and was tasered four times by law enforcement, who also used a baton repeatedly.

“She was literally out of her mind,” he said.

The O’Melia family agrees. O’Melia’s father spoke to NewsNation’s Ashleigh Banfield about the sentence.

“At one point, I said, ‘Sir you have just given people a license to kill,’ and I sincerely mean that,” Sean O’Melia said. “You cannot allow people, regardless of what they’re feeling or doing or in a state of mind, to not have any punishment for the taking of a human life.”

O’Melia said he is concerned Spejcher could harm someone again and blame it on a substance.

But Schwartz said the case isn’t likely to set a legal precedent, calling it an anomaly.