Overview
- An Italian judge on Friday kept Lee Gilley in jail pending a May 11 hearing after Milan border police said he tried to enter the country with forged Belgian documents.
- In Houston, Judge Peyton Peebles on Friday issued a gag order that limits what lawyers, investigators, and witnesses can say publicly to protect the selection of an impartial jury.
- The court also moved to forfeit Gilley’s $1 million bond, a step that can take months to collect and often depends on his return to Harris County.
- Extradition timing remains uncertain because Italy generally bars transfers where a defendant could face execution and could delay return if it prosecutes him for the fake documents.
- Christa Gilley’s parents asked a Harris County judge on Wednesday to suspend his relatives’ shared custody of the couple’s children until he is back in the United States.