TROY — The 19-year-old Westland woman who gained national notoriety for performing a sex act on the husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow was sentenced Tuesday to six months of probation for trespassing.

Alycia Martin, now 20, was sentenced under the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, a state law that allows her to have no public criminal record if she completes all the terms of her probation and does not commit any new crime in the next six months.

Martin, who left the Troy District Court with a smile but in tears, had been charged with prostitution in February after Troy police arrested her as part of an undercover surveillance operation at the Residence Inn.

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Questioned but never charged in the case was Stabenow’s husband Thomas Athans, who confessed to police that he paid a woman $150 at the hotel for oral sex. Police identified that woman as Martin.

Martin’s attorney Frank Cusumano Jr. worked for months to get the case dismissed, filing dozens of motions, briefs and documents to have Martin’s case thrown out on grounds that Troy police illegally searched her hotel room, rendering her arrest unlawful. After a daylong evidentiary hearing, Judge William Bolle ruled that Athans did not have to testify at the hearing and the case should proceed to trial.

Martin, who recently found work as a server in a Detroit restaurant near Comerica Park, later pleaded guilty to the lesser charge. Bolle said the terms of her probation include getting permission from the court to leave the state, keeping the court advised of a current address and not ingesting any mood altering substances. She is also subject to random drug testing.

“I’m just glad it’s all behind me,” a tearful Martin said after court. “I’m a good person and I made a few stupid decisions I’ve learned from.”