The woman convicted in an eco-terror attack at the University of Washington has been sentenced to six years in prison. Seattle television station KIRO is reporting that Briana Waters asked for mercy because she has a 3-year-old daughter. Prosecutors had recommended a 10-year sentence - her lawyer asked for no more than a 5-year term. Waters was taken into custody after Thursday’s sentencing in federal court in Tacoma. She had been convicted March 6 of arson, and her lawyer is working on an appeal. The 32-year-old from Berkeley, California, was an Evergreen State College student who acted as a lookout in 2001 when others set fire to the Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle. The Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility because it believed, mistakenly, a researcher was genetically modifying poplar trees. (AP)