{"id":43394,"date":"2021-12-07T02:08:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T09:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-convicted-and-sentenced-again-for-domestic-violence\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:13:15","slug":"man-convicted-and-sentenced-again-for-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-convicted-and-sentenced-again-for-domestic-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted and sentenced again for domestic violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bfbf69e5-eec6-533d-b187-d65808b65448&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"638\" alt=\"Harry Lee Bylilly (Courtesy Montezuma County Sheriff's Office)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Harry Lee Bylilly (Courtesy Montezuma County Sheriff's Office)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Montezuma County Sheriff<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A Cortez man who pleaded guilty to beating up his girlfriend a second time was sentenced again to the maximum sentence in Montezuma County Court.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Lee Bylilly, 48, pleaded guilty Nov. 17 to an amended count of menacing as an act of domestic violence, a Class 5 felony, said Assistant District Attorney Will Furse.<\/p>\n<p>The courts found aggravating circumstances, which led to Chief Judge Doug Walker handing down the maximum sentence of six years in the Department of Corrections.<\/p>\n<p>A Class 5 felony without aggravated circumstances has a presumptive range of one to three years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>According to court records, Bylilly assaulted his girlfriend between March 9 and March 10 at her residence in the Happy Valley Trailer Park on East Seventh Street. He was arrested March 11, and had a blood alcohol content of 0.243, according to police reports.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was injured from the attack and required hospitalization. Injuries included damage to her eye.<\/p>\n<p>It was Bylilly\u2019s second conviction for domestic violence against the same person.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 24, a jury convicted him of third-degree assault in the act of domestic violence that occurred on Jan. 5 at the victim\u2019s residence. Bylilly showed a blood alcohol level of 0.4, according to the police report.<\/p>\n<p>Montezuma County Judge JenniLynn Lawrence handed down the maximum sentence of two years in the Department of Corrections. The two prison sentences will run concurrently.<\/p>\n<p>Victims of domestic violence can call a local hotline at (970) 565-2100 for help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aggravated circumstances leads to 6 years in prison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,168,923,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-43394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-crime","tag-domestic-violence","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85687,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43394\/revisions\/85687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43394"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=43394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}