The record

The Timeline

Every entry links to the document that proves it. All documents: /documents/

The worst of it, in order.

  • March 15, 2025
    After Carli tells him she will seek a restraining order, Vincent Hyler announces the plan on her living-room camera: “The paperwork’s filed … And I’m goin’ full custody.” “My family’s got money too.” “All I have to do is call the cops and you are gone … you don’t have to take the boy with you … I’ve done my homework.”
    Document: Transcript of the March 15, 2025 recording · Letter and sworn statement to the California Attorney General, Nov. 3, 2026
  • March 16, 2025
    At about 3 a.m. the doorbell camera records Vincent Hyler at Carli’s front door: “Yeah, you’re gonna open the fuckin’ door … if you don’t, I’m gonna fuckin’ kill you.” He leaves again with the baby. That night he forces the bedroom door she has barricaded with a dog crate while she calls 911, and refuses to let the deputies in.
    Document: Verified complaint, as alleged, ¶¶ 46–47
  • August 12, 2026
    With no notice to Carli (the court’s register reads “NOTICE NOT GIVEN”), the Mendocino court signs a temporary order in Vincent Hyler’s favor. It was void when signed: findings left blank, issued on his false sworn firearm statement, the domestic-violence presumption never applied though his own exhibits included the Florida finding of July 6. It also expired by its own printed terms at the September 2 hearing “unless extended by court order.”
    Document: The Aug. 12, 2026 paper (FL-305) · Register: “NOTICE NOT GIVEN”
  • August 12, 2026
    In the application, filed by Kali Perkins, Vincent Hyler swears under penalty of perjury that he surrendered “the firearm referenced in the 2025 directive,” and attaches as his own Exhibit F the April 2025 receipt that lists no shotgun. The statement has never been withdrawn or corrected.
    Document: Aug. 12 application with Exhibit F · California sanctions motion (sworn)
  • August 19, 2026
    A Lee County judge signs, without notice and exactly as drafted, the warrant Vincent Hyler’s Florida lawyer wrote, “Proposed Emergency Ex Parte Order and Child-Pickup Warrant” on every page, resting on the August 12 paper (void when signed; expired by its own terms on September 2). It sends deputies to the address the same Florida court had sealed on Carli’s own domestic-violence petition. That evening Lee County deputies take J.J. from Carli’s home and release him to Vincent Hyler.
    Document: The Florida warrant, “Proposed” on every page · Verified complaint, as alleged, ¶ 56
  • August 26, 2026
    At 1:00 p.m., Vincent Hyler’s own exhibit places J.J. at a clinic in Ukiah, California. The Florida order “authorizing” travel to California is signed at 1:11 p.m. on August 27, the next day. The warrant’s own ¶ 8 forbade taking J.J. out of Florida without a further order.
    Document: Ukiah clinic record, Aug. 26, 1:00 p.m. · Florida travel order, Aug. 27, 1:11 p.m. · The Florida warrant, “Proposed” on every page
  • September 2, 2026
    The August 12 paper, void when signed, expires by its own printed terms, and the warrant’s own ¶ 16 ends with it “unless proof of a written extension is presented.” The clerk’s minutes record no extension; none has ever been written. The same day Carli’s application to be told where her son is is denied: “no actual exigency shown.”
    Document: Clerk’s minutes, Sept. 2, 2026 · Florida sanctions motion (sworn) · Denial of the whereabouts application
  • September 8, 2026
    Carli reports J.J. to the Mendocino County District Attorney, whose office the law directs to “take all actions necessary to locate and return the child.” The DA’s investigator calls Vincent Hyler’s lawyer before he calls Carli, then tells her: “All you’re doing is every day writing stuff to file in court”; “maybe you had to think about hiring a lawyer.” No action follows.
    Document: Transcript of the DA investigator’s call · Letter and sworn statement to the California Attorney General, Nov. 3, 2026
  • September 11, 2026
    At 1:07 a.m. the Lee County deputy who took J.J. comes to Carli’s door to refuse her missing-child report: J.J. “won’t be entered into the system”; “a police report is for a crime.” At 11:04 a.m. his lieutenant writes that the office is “unable to enter your son as a missing person” because it is “civil in nature.” J.J. has never been entered.
    Document: Lee County Sheriff letter, Sept. 11, 2026 · Verified complaint, as alleged, ¶ 58
  • September 23–24, 2026
    The Lee County judge who signed the warrant assigns Carli’s case to enforce her registered custody order to herself, and the next afternoon holds it in abeyance. Carli’s sworn motion to disqualify her is filed at 3:11 p.m. that day and has been left unruled. The expedited hearing the Florida statute says the court “shall” set has never been set.
    Document: Letter and sworn statement to the California Attorney General, Nov. 3, 2026
  • September 29, 2026
    The day after Carli’s reports to the Mendocino District Attorney and the ATF, the same Lee County deputy who took J.J., noticed a month earlier as Vincent Hyler’s witness, arrests her at her home (No. 26-CF-017549). Bail is set at $75,000, her phone is taken, and her dog is taken to animal services. On October 26 the State dismissed the case without ever filing a charge.
    Document: Verified complaint, as alleged, ¶ 58 · Letter and sworn statement to the California Attorney General, Nov. 3, 2026
  • October 14, 2026
    Kali Perkins swears under penalty of perjury that the only extension ruling was the oral one of October 6, and that her client “does not request that the Court record an extension as having been made on a date when no such ruling occurred.” Her brief the same day: a court “may not create a different judicial decision retroactively.” The First District denies Carli’s second petition (A177795) in one sentence.
    Document: Perkins declaration and brief, Oct. 14, 2026 · First District denials (Aug. 31, Oct. 6, Oct. 14)
  • October 15, 2026
    On no motion, with no hearing and over Carli’s filed objection, the Mendocino judge signs the order Kali Perkins drafted: the August 12 paper (void when signed; expired by its own terms on September 2) was “extended” on September 15, has “remained in full force and effect without interruption,” and “the minute order for September 15, 2026 is corrected.” He signs it on the day Carli filed her own ex parte request for J.J.’s return, and denies that request the same afternoon.
    Document: Order of Oct. 15, 2026 · Letter and sworn statement to the California Attorney General, Nov. 3, 2026
  • November 2, 2026
    The First District denies habeas corpus for J.J. (A177840) in one line, without reasons. No opposition had been filed.
    Document: PDF posted soon.
  • November 9, 2026
    The Mendocino judge rules on his own disqualification for the second time, striking Carli’s statement — and in the same document swears, under penalty of perjury, to an account of his own orders that the court’s minutes, his October 15 order and the opposing lawyer’s sworn declaration each contradict.

Every statement about a court proceeding on this page is drawn from a filed court record, cited by case number; where a recording, letter or paper is quoted, the quotation is verbatim. J.J. is referred to by his initials.

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