A former UC Riverside student pleaded guilty to soliciting acquaintances to assault and injure two former boyfriends, stalking another victim and dissuading a witness on Thursday, Jan. 15, in a plea agreement that will likely result in her release from jail sometime this year.

The agreement between defendant Barbara Wu, 23, and the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office came as Wu’s trial on more-serious solicitation-of-murder charges was about to begin as early as next week.

Those charges will be dismissed at the sentencing scheduled Jan. 26 before Judge Michele Levine.

Under the agreement, Wu faces a sentence of three years and four months. The potential maximum sentence for her crimes is six years and four months, according to John Hall, district attorney’s spokesman.

Had she been convicted of all 10 charges, she could have faced up to 14 years in prison, he said.

Wu has been in custody since her arrest in May 2013, and authorities must calculate how much credit she will receive for time already spent in jail. Inmates are eligible to receive more jail time credits than actual calendar days served.

Wu originally was charged with one murder solicitation count from a May 2013 incident, but after her arrest another witness contacted authorities because he thought he was the intended target. But he described incidents that took place three years earlier, leading to new charges.

The plots were laid out during an August 2013 preliminary hearing. Wu’s defense attorney, Rajan Maline, said at the time that his client had no serious intent to carry out the alleged plans.

“These are the musings of a young lady who has been spurned by these two guys,” Maline said at the time.

Wu was first accused of asking a boyfriend to break the legs of an ex-boyfriend with a baseball bat and then kill him, dispose of the body and then leave the country with her.

In the 2010 incident, a man Wu had dated in 2009 and 2010 told authorities that she asked him to help torture and kill her former high school boyfriend.

Wu also pleaded guilty to felony stalking of another victim, only identified as John Doe, in 2012 and 2013, and dissuading a witness, a different person also identified as John Doe, in May 2013.

Wu enrolled at UCR in 2009, the university had previously said, and she was still a student four months before her arrest in May 2013.

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