{"id":44397,"date":"2021-10-05T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-convicted-of-domestic-violence-assault-faces-more-criminal-charges\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:18:55","slug":"man-convicted-of-domestic-violence-assault-faces-more-criminal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-convicted-of-domestic-violence-assault-faces-more-criminal-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted of domestic violence assault faces more criminal charges"},"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 convicted Sept. 24 of assault in the act of domestic violence now faces new criminal charges after allegedly assaulting the same victim.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Lee Bylilly, 48, was arrested Jan. 5 for suspicion of beating up his girlfriend at her residence in the Happy Valley Trailer Park on East Seventh Street, according to the Cortez Police Department arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>The victim suffered facial and back injuries and fled to a friend\u2019s house on Ash Street to call 911.<\/p>\n<p>Bylilly was arrested that night and charged for third-degree assault and domestic violence. Upon his arrest, Bylilly showed a blood alcohol level of 0.4, according to the police report.<\/p>\n<p>Bylilly pleaded not guilty. At a trial in the Montezuma Combined Courthouse, a jury convicted him of third-degree assault in the act of domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence range includes the possibility of up to two years in jail. Sentencing is set for Nov. 1 at 3 p.m. by Judge JenniLynn Lawrence.<\/p>\n<p>On March 11, Bylilly was arrested again just after midnight at the same residence for suspicion of assault and domestic violence against the same victim, according to court and police reports.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his arrest, he allegedly had a blood alcohol content of 0.243, the report shows. He remains in custody at the Montezuma County Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cortez police reports, on the evening of March 10, the victim suffered facial wounds, including a swollen-closed eye, and leg bruises. She was taken to Southwest Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>According to a physician\u2019s injury report, the victim sustained serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n<p>The 22nd Judicial District Attorney\u2019s Office has filed charges including second-degree assault-domestic violence, a Class 4 felony. Other charges include violating a protection order and bond conditions, harassment and crime of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Bylilly has pleaded not guilty. His case is set for a jury trial Oct. 11 in 22nd Judicial District Court.<\/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>down guilty plea; new case is pending <\/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":[21,168,923,28,29,76],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-crime","tag-domestic-violence","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-u-s-22nd-judicial-district"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44397","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=44397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86072,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44397\/revisions\/86072"}],"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=44397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44397"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}