In re Riley

BACKGROUND

In February 2024, Riley entered a no contest plea to two counts of willful infliction of corporal injury and one count of dissuading a witness; she

1 also admitted causing great bodily injury. (Pen. Code, §§ 273.5, subd. (a), 136.1, subd. (b)(1), 12022.7, subd. (e); undesignated statutory references are to this code.) In exchange, she received four years of probation and a 60-day county jail term. The agreement allowed her to apply for electronic home detention in lieu of serving jail time. The trial court entered judgment accordingly. In March, the sheriff asked the court to refer her to its work release program instead of electronic home detention. The court did so. In June 2024 — after having served six days in the work release program — Riley missed work because of morning sickness related to her pregnancy. She did not know she was pregnant when she enrolled in the program. After she provided proof to the sheriff, the sheriff told her they would send her file back to the trial court, and that the court “will find something else for you to do that is lighter or possibly give you a ‘stay’ that will send you back to the program at a later date.” The sheriff advised…