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Judge shortens defendant Michael Wollman’s Cabo trip, denies later international travel request
Summary
Fort Bend County Court at Law No. 1 allowed defendant Michael Glenn Wollman to travel to Cabo for three days in mid-April to visit the site of his daughter's ashes but denied a proposed July anniversary trip; the court set an in-person docket-controller signing to assign an earlier trial date.
A Fort Bend County judge partially granted an international travel motion for defendant Michael Glenn Wollman on the record, allowing a shortened family trip to Cabo San Lucas in mid-April but denying a later international trip planned for July.
Defense attorney Capitillo told the court that two trips had been planned before the defendant’s arrest: an April trip to Cabo San Lucas to visit the site where the family’s daughter’s ashes were spread, and a July trip to mark a 20th wedding anniversary with travel to Rome and Athens. Capitillo said the trips were significant and costly and asked the court to allow both.
The judge, citing scheduling and the court’s interest in ensuring the case proceeds, limited the Cabo travel to three days — permitting travel on April 17, 18 and 19 — and denied the July anniversary trip at this time. The judge invited defense counsel to reapproach on the second travel date later and said the court would consider setting an earlier trial date when the parties could appear to sign a new docket controller.
Capitillo said the family planned the April travel around Easter and the children’s schooling. The prosecutor told the court the state would defer to the court’s discretion but asked that any travel allowed be accompanied by testing before and after and that the defendant provide his itinerary to pretrial supervision.
The court directed counsel to appear Friday morning to sign a new docket controller; the judge said a new trial date would be set at that in-person meeting. The case’s current trial date was listed as November on the docket.
No change to bond conditions was announced at the hearing.
