Seems Karen is pleading guilty rather than being forced to leave her home to attend trial.
Government scores victory against woman who can't leave her house
Of all the people in the United States posting sexually explicit text to Internet sites, the government chose agoraphobic Karen Fletcher to indict for text-based obscenity - and now that she's pleading guilty, it's not unreasonable to ask, "Why Karen?"
http://www.avn.com/law/articles/30261.html