For the second time in a week, Sherry Papini, the woman of Shasta County, convicted of fraud and lied to the FBI in connection with her false abduction in 2016, tried to discuss her work in a personal employee.
Papini’s lawyer met on Wednesday in Chambers in Chambers with Shasta Supreme Court Commissioner John Berglund in connection with a temporary restrictive order of paps filed against a woman who claims that Papini stole his boyfriend.
But on Friday, Berglund denied Papini’s separate request to meet alone in a case when Papini was expelled from Shingltown’s home, owned by an ex -boyfriend. Papins are presented in the case of expulsion.
Sherry Papini left the Chasta County Court of County in Reading, California after a hearing on Friday, June 6, 2025.
Papini won worldwide fame when she disappeared in November 2016 while she was out for jogging near her home north of Reading. It appeared 22 days later on a rural road in Yolo County, bruised, Markov and with its long blond hair haircut.
At that time, she told the law enforcement agencies that she had been abducted by two Spanish -eating women who physically abused her.
Her story was unraveled in March 2022, when the FBI arrested Papini, who admitted that he had falsified his abduction and was injuring himself. She later admitted that she would voluntarily stay in Costa Mesa, California, with an ex-boyfriend all the time.
She pleaded guilty to sending fraud and lied to the FBI later that year and was sentenced to 18 months in prison and was ordered to pay about $ 309,000 to the state, the federal and local authorities for the expenses associated with her work.
In new documents, Papini continues to claim that she was abducted in 2016, but now says she was detained against her will by the ex -boyfriend. She said in the documentary, the story that she was abducted on November 2, 2016 by two Spanish -eating women, is a lie made by the media.
Papini’s lawyer and lawyer representing the woman who is alleged that Papini were watching her met with Berglund in Chambers on Wednesday. After the private meeting, the commissioner and two lawyers appeared and Berglund announced that the case had been settled and fired.
“Due to the sensitivity of the case”
Papini, who had no lawyer with her in court on Friday, again tried to meet with the commissioner alone.
She gave a note to Berblund, which said “because of the sensitivity of the case,” she wanted to meet with the judge alone, not in an open court. The Commissioner denied this request and told her that hearing on Friday was just a conference on the condition and said that none of the parties would discuss the merits of the case.
Sherry Papini left the Chasta County Court of County in Reading, California after a hearing on Friday, June 6, 2025.
David Loy, the legal director of the first amendment coalition, said it was not uncommon for settlement conferences, and that was discussed on Wednesday in a temporary order to restrict the order, to discuss alone.
But meetings in cameras with a judge or court commissioner are only authorized in limited circumstances, he said. Private meetings are usually not resolved just because the problems surrounding the case are sensitive.
“This in itself is not enough. In other words, just because it is disturbing or sensitive, it is not enough. And many lawsuits are disturbing or sensitive. Most of them are (sensitive) by definition. People do not go to court unless something bad happens,” Loy said.
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Elizabeth Elizodo, the lawyer who represents the owner of the property who is trying to expel paps, said the meeting with a judge is privately unusual and that during her career she never met a judge in Chamber.
“It’s not normal. They never do it for this type of hearing,” Elizodo said in an email.
The Shingletown house, where paps lives, is owned by Sean Hibden of Orland. Papini claims she had an agreement with Hibden, an ex -boyfriend, to eventually buy the house. But the two interrupted their relationship and Hibden sent a Papini notice in January that she had been expelled.
Hibden uses expulsion as an opportunity to shame it publicly, Papini said in a statement brought in the expulsion case.
“The plaintiff (Hibdon) makes threats for both implied and explicitly, if I do not buy the home under specific, adverse conditions, I will be expelled, publicly humiliated or confronted with further damage to my personal financial well-being,” she wrote in the declaration.
Elizodo, who is Hibden, said Papini’s allegations were not true. Elizodo and Hibden tried to resolve the dispute before they went to court and try to avoid publicly available with disagreements.
“In addition, we had to break our silence and issue a statement, as the defendant’s country threatened to include the media if the settlement negotiations were not pursued under its conditions. There were also threats to release potentially disturbing messages related to the applicant,” Elizodo said.
“It seems that these actions are aimed at the public humiliation of the plaintiff (hibden) – the very thing she accuses us of doing it. We consider it important to acknowledge these threats, so if any information is released, it can be considered in the appropriate context,” Elizodo said.
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