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A Calgary woman who chased down her boyfriend and stabbed him in the back — after he’d left their apartment to calm down following an argument — has been spared a federal prison sentence.

Instead, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Rosemary Nation ordered Kaitlin Rhude on Tuesday to serve 80 days behind bars on weekends and spend three years on probation.

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Nation rejected a call by Crown prosecutors Colin Schulhauser and Elisa Frank for a 30-month sentence for Rhude, 22, on a charge of aggravated assault.

But she said the suspended sentence being sought by defence lawyer Neil Patterson, which would have kept Rhude out of custody entirely, was insufficient punishment.

Nation accepted Patterson’s fall-back position, that if any jail was necessary it should be 90 days, the maximum sentence available for intermittent terms.

Rhude served the equivalent of 10 days before being released on bail following her arrest for knifing her then-boyfriend, leaving her 80 more days behind bars, the judge said.