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Berline Laguerre, a former street vendor who once sold used clothes, said the money she had saved to buy more clothes went to feed her children.

San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Danny Chou was set to approve the terms of the settlement Thursday, but in a surprising turn of events, Li’s attorney Jason Fernell said the lawyer who negotiated the settlement agreement with the children, Alexander Berline, was not representing Li.

The judge continued the hearing until April 21 to allow the attorneys to clarify whether Berline was actually representing Li in the settlement negotiations.

Berline moved to Guthrie in 1995 and opened the Double Stop Fiddle Shop & Music Hall, which was destroyed by a fire in 2019.

A three-time National Fiddle Champion, Berline grew up in Grant County along the Oklahoma-Kansas state line and worked with music greats like Vince Gill, Bob Dylan, Elton John and the Rolling Stones.