Armas

I.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

After Armas was convicted of two counts relating to child pornography (§§ 311.1, subd. (a), 311.11, subd. (a)), the trial court placed Armas on formal probation for a period of two years, to expire August 16, 2023. On April 5, 2022, Armas’s probation officer filed a petition alleging that Armas had violated the terms of probation. At a September 9, 2022 probation revocation hearing, the trial court (1) found that Armas violated the terms of his probation; (2) imposed a suspended sentence of two years eight months; and (3) reinstated formal probation. The new expiration date for Armas’s probation was January 20, 2024. Two weeks later, on September 28, 2022, the probation officer filed a second petition, which alleged that Armas had committed additional

On our own motion, we take judicial notice of Armas I. 2 probation violations. While that petition was pending, Armas, who was representing himself, filed a late notice of appeal from the trial court’s September 9, 2022 order ruling on the probation officer’s first petition. Armas’s December 5, 2022 notice of appeal was rejected as untimely. But Armas filed a petition for writ of habeas…