Lee Gilley granted partial extradition: Gilley's attorney explains next steps

We are talking about Lee Gillie, and to give you an idea, he's the 39-year-old man who was accused of killing his pregnant wife, and then he fled to Italy. Now, he pled not guilty to charges of capital murder in the death of his wife, Krista Gillie, and we do know that he now faces a lawsuit from his dead wife's parents. But now there are some new developments showing that an Italian court has granted extradition for Lee Gillie to Harris County on a lesser murder charge. So we have his attorney with us right now. And I wanted to bring you up, sir. So let us know what you think, Dick DeGaren, thank you for being here, in terms of what the Italian court granted and what now the future would possibly be like for your client, Lee Gillie. Well, the order from the Italian court is 56 pages long. I don't have time to go into it all. But what they said was they will not extradite him for capital murder. they will extradite him for what's called murder in Texas, which is a lesser offense that has a wide range of punishment. And have you been able to talk to him since this whole development has taken place? Well, I just got it this morning. No, I have not. I'm sure I will. Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off. That's all right. I was going to say, can you just explain to us what you all were waiting for from the Italian court and also what Lee Gillie has said to you in terms of cutting off his ankle monitor and fleeing over to Italy and why he did it? Well, I can't answer the second part of it, but I can say that what we were waiting for was a decision from the Italian court on whether they would grant extradition. They do not recognize the death penalty, and they do not recognize the sentence of life without parole or without chance of parole. And so the question that they posed was, is there a realistic chance for a lesser sentence based on rehabilitation or good conduct? The answer to that is no, not in Texas. And so what they've done is they've issued an order that he can be extradited for the lesser offense of murder. So what are the next steps now? Well, both sides have a right to appeal the latest order. I'm advised that the Italian lawyers will appeal. They have 15 days to do that. And then there's an appellate court in Italy that will decide the matter. The government can also appeal, and I don't know whether they will or not. With all of these possible things that could happen, what is the time frame we're looking at here that we could see legally here in Harris County? I don't know. Any appellate process takes a while. In Texas, I could give you a better idea of it, but I don't know in Italy what their appellate process involves or how long it takes is there anything else that's developed that you know about that we should know no not as far as the criminal case is concerned all right well thank you so much for your time i appreciate it thank you all right and uh that was Lee Gillie's attorney Dick DeGaren and we were able to speak with him live there again like i said the italian court has granted extradition for Lee Gillie to return back to Harris County and it would be on a lesser murder charge. Again, he is accused of killing his pregnant wife.