PHOTO! Here are pictures of David Kernell first broke on LALATE. Now David Kernell, son of Rep. Mike Kernell, has been indicted for the Sarah Palin email hacking.

David Kernell’s Palin email matter has Kernell pleading not guilty for the alleged hacking of Palin’s email accounts.

David Kernell is 20 from Knoxville, an economics student at the University of Tennessee.

Strangely, when the Palin email story first broke, every mainstream press outlet picked it up. But when the Kernell investigation hit late one night in September, the story of Kernell was virtually nowhere to be found.

Kernell is out free without need of bond. His dad is State Rep. Mike Kernell of Memphis, chairman of Tennessee’s House Government Operations Committee.

Kernell faces five years in prision, $250,000 fine, and more following a federal indictment this week.

Says Kernell’s attorney: “As soon as we found out about the charges this morning, David voluntarily turned himself in”.