Let me revise comments I made earlier about Lori Hellis, and my opinion on the restrictions placed on her in being in the courtroom.
Previously I opined that she had gone way over the line, got shot down by the judge, and any recent issues are flowing from her own wrongdoing, so to speak. But there was some pushback here in response to my words, and on further review, let me correct myself with an apology: I did overstate things!
I went back and listened to the hearing online. Boyce did allow her to be heard on the issues, and did recognize that she had the right to raise questions like "any person" does. So when I said she had no "standing," that was simply wrong.
Then there was no ruling that followed shortly thereafter. But it wasn't ignored - it was just delayed by about 6-7 weeks because of Lori competency issues.
Ultimately her blanket statement about Boyce's rulings all being wrong, and needing to be examined by HER, and the public needing to see what he sealed to decide whether it was proper, was over the top. But he himself did go back and examine her list of items that she claimed were wrongly sealed, one by one, and in some of the ones (in general, in each case, a bit under 20%), he unsealed what had been sealed for one reason or another. Did it matter? I'm guessing not, but it's just my guess. Frankly I don't want to invest dozens of hours of research time to find each of those few items and see if any matter.
As for where we are now, even though she did go to court and argue to the judge, her status in this case has NOT become any more special than any other member of the general public. She is designated by the court as having the standing of "any person."
So in the trial itself, as we go along, to the extent she fails to follow rules in some way or another, or causes disruptions in the courtroom, or otherwise shows a potential to be disruptive, she should have no reason to think she should be exempt from consequences. I'm far from the courtroom, but I hear she has stepped over some lines and caused some disruptions, and if so, she certainly should be treated accordingly.