Jillian Lauren , the bestselling author and wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner , appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday and was granted the right to enter a two-year mental health diversion program.

If she completes the program as ordered, a judge is expected to dismiss the two felony charges filed against her in connection with the wild exchange of gunfire with LAPD officers that left her wounded in her own backyard on April 8. Officials say she fired first.

“We think this was the right resolution,” Lauren’s lawyer, Hilary Lee Potashner, tells Rolling Stone . The attorney and her co-counsel, Georgina Wakefield, said Thursday they’re both “very pleased” that Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Susan J. De Witt found Lauren eligible for the opportunity to have the case

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