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Manhunt underway for 'dangerous' convicted felon suspected of killing tech CEO

21 points by bryan0 3y ago

paxys 3y ago
> Billingsley pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in 2009 and second-degree assault in 2011, according to court records. He also pleaded guilty to a first-degree sex offense in 2015 and was sentenced to 30 years in prison with 16 months already served, the records show. > Billingsley was released from prison in October 2022. Thanks Maryland. You did a lot of good by giving this guy unlimited chances to improve himself. I'm sure all his victims feel the same.
- networkchad 3y ago
  [dead]
- junofan 3y ago
  Allegedly a week ago he broke into a family’s home, raped the woman, doused the couple in lighter fluid, and lit them on fire in front of their child. As the mayor said, > "There is no way in Hell he should have been on the streets."
  - fakedang 3y ago
    Narrator (in a Morgan Freeman voice): But he was....
- paulddraper 3y ago
  What's the story for getting out 20+ years early?
  - sneed_chucker 3y ago
    anarcho tyranny
whimsicalism 3y ago
He was caught
- WentFullRetard 3y ago
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sacnoradhq 3y ago
Baltimore, like Detroit, St. Louis, and Kansas City, is a generally fucked, dangerous, dysfunctional city. Baltimore specifically has an absurd number of police cameras, highly racialized policing, and massive unemployment. It's generally not a nice place to live. Detroit is especially fucked because of large sections of abandoned residential areas and places so dangerous that the underfunded, understaffed police refuse to go.
sneed_chucker 3y ago
> "There is no way in Hell he should have been on the streets," Mayor Brandon Scott said. And yet.
tzs 3y ago
In this and other discussions of this there have been several wrong explanations of why he was released from prison. Here is what actually happened. His sentence was for 30 years with 16 suspended, which in effect means a 14 year sentence with the possibility of the other 16 becoming unsuspended if after release he violated the conditions of his release. Inmates in Maryland can earn credits through good behavior, successful participation in work programs, and successful participation in educational programs. These credits knock time off their sentence. You can earn up to 30 days worth of credits in a month if your crime was not violent, was not a large drug crime, and wasn't a sex crime. You cannot earn credits if your crime was a sex crime with a victim under 16. His crime was between those two extemes, allowing up to 20 days of a credit per month. He was able to earn close to that, so after 9 years he had enough credits to cover the remaining 5 years on his 14.

21 points by bryan0 3y ago

> Billingsley pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in 2009 and second-degree assault in 2011, according to court records. He also pleaded guilty to a first-degree sex offense in 2015 and was sentenced to 30 years in prison with 16 months already served, the records show. > Billingsley was released from prison in October 2022. Thanks Maryland. You did a lot of good by giving this guy unlimited chances to improve himself. I'm sure all his victims feel the same.

networkchad 3y ago
[dead]
junofan 3y ago
Allegedly a week ago he broke into a family’s home, raped the woman, doused the couple in lighter fluid, and lit them on fire in front of their child. As the mayor said, > "There is no way in Hell he should have been on the streets."
- fakedang 3y ago
  Narrator (in a Morgan Freeman voice): But he was....
paulddraper 3y ago
What's the story for getting out 20+ years early?
- sneed_chucker 3y ago
  anarcho tyranny

whimsicalism 3y ago

He was caught

WentFullRetard 3y ago
[dead]

sacnoradhq 3y ago

Baltimore, like Detroit, St. Louis, and Kansas City, is a generally fucked, dangerous, dysfunctional city. Baltimore specifically has an absurd number of police cameras, highly racialized policing, and massive unemployment. It's generally not a nice place to live. Detroit is especially fucked because of large sections of abandoned residential areas and places so dangerous that the underfunded, understaffed police refuse to go.

sneed_chucker 3y ago

> "There is no way in Hell he should have been on the streets," Mayor Brandon Scott said. And yet.

tzs 3y ago

In this and other discussions of this there have been several wrong explanations of why he was released from prison. Here is what actually happened. His sentence was for 30 years with 16 suspended, which in effect means a 14 year sentence with the possibility of the other 16 becoming unsuspended if after release he violated the conditions of his release. Inmates in Maryland can earn credits through good behavior, successful participation in work programs, and successful participation in educational programs. These credits knock time off their sentence. You can earn up to 30 days worth of credits in a month if your crime was not violent, was not a large drug crime, and wasn't a sex crime. You cannot earn credits if your crime was a sex crime with a victim under 16. His crime was between those two extemes, allowing up to 20 days of a credit per month. He was able to earn close to that, so after 9 years he had enough credits to cover the remaining 5 years on his 14.