A former mental patient convicted of stalking Uma Thurman was sentenced yesterday to three years probation and warned to stay away from the “Kill Bill” actress.

A state supreme court justice, Gregory Carro, said Jack Jordan may serve his probation in Gaithersburg, Md., where he will live with his parents.

A condition of the probation is that Jordan, 37, enter and stick with an outpatient psychiatric program. The judge rejected the prosecutor’s request for a year in jail.

Mr. Carro also signed an order of protection that bars Jordan from trying to contact the 38-year-old Ms. Thurman for five years. If he violates the terms of the probation or the order of protection, he will go to jail, the judge said.

Jordan was convicted on May 6 of the stalking and aggravated harassment of the “Pulp Fiction” actress from 2005 to 2007 — calling her family and employees, sending her creepy cards and e-mail messages, and showing up at the door of her Greenwich Village home late at night.

“I just want to apologize to Ms. Thurman and to her family,” Jordan said. Thurman and her family were not at the sentencing.

“I have tried to be law abiding and treat people with respect,” Jordan, a college graduate who was a lifeguard and pool cleaner when he was arrested, said. “I overstepped those bounds with Ms. Thurman and I am very sorry. I had no idea I had done that until this trial.”

“The slightest word from Ms. Thurman — if she had said, ‘You’re frightening me, leave me alone’ — she would never have heard from me again,” Jordan said. “My intention was for a kind of relationship to develop between us.”