Judge Perry B. Inos credited time already served by Hocog, 22, at the Department of Corrections facility since his arrest on March 4, 2010.
Larry Gonzales, 37, succumbed to head injuries after being in a coma for four days at the Commonwealth Health Center.
Hocog admitted punching Gonzales, causing the victim to fall and hit his head on the concrete pavement near Kagman High School on March 1, 2010.
Inos also ordered Hocog to pay restitution in the amount of $14,075.37, a $100 fine and court assessment fee.
Hocog will complete 200 hours of community work service within two years while in prison.
Inos ordered Hocog to undergo counseling while in jail.
Corrections officials are “ordered to do what is needed to do” for Hocog’s counseling at the Community Guidance Center, Inos said.
The judge also “strongly recommended” for Hocog to complete GED classes.
Hocog will not be placed on probation after his release from prison, as recommended by Assistant Attorney General Peter B. Prestley, who prosecuted the case.
Prestley recommended the maximum penalty of five years imprisonment.
Assistant Public Defender Richard Miller, who represented Hocog, asked the court to sentence his client to three years jail term, and two years suspended sentence.
Hocog asked for forgiveness, and accepted the consequences and punishment for his action.
“Every day and every night I pray to ask for forgiveness of my sin,” Hocog told the court, as he also asked forgiveness from the Gonzales family and his family.
Hocog’s mother and a family member were in the courtroom.
Inos noted that Gonzales was “not in a fighting mode and not in a fighting mood.”
He said Hocog “did not prepare [Gonzales] for this fight so he could defend [himself]. That’s the trouble with this case. You did not have a mutual fight. That’s not a fair punch.”
Inos earlier rejected the first plea agreement which proposed a sentence of five years, all suspended except for three years, for involuntary manslaughter. After serving two years in prison, Hocog would have been eligible for parole.
The plea agreement was later amended.
Hocog earlier denied the charges of one count of voluntary manslaughter, one count of aggravated assault and battery, and assault and battery.
The charge of murder in the second degree was dismissed by the court.
