DUBLIN — A intercourse offender who killed his cellmate was allowed to plead responsible of voluntary manslaughter, however discovered not responsible by purpose of madness, court docket data present.
As a part of an settlement between protection and prosecuting attorneys, 35-year-old Bryson Levy was discovered not responsible by purpose of madness on Feb. 4. Final month, he was transferred to the State Hospital system to start a time period of confinement that can last as long as eight years, or till he’s deemed cured of psychological sickness.
As a part of the deal, prosecutors agreed Levy was legally insane on the time of the murder. A court docket listening to is required to determine any discovering that Levy has been cured.
In February 2023, Levy was launched to his new Santa Rita Jail cellmate, an El Cerrito man named Yuri Model who was in jail for allegedly spending two days in a Piedmont resident’s unoccupied house, when the home-owner was away. Model had been identified with schizophrenia, authorities mentioned.
Inside one hour of being positioned within the cell, Levy killed Model. Police discovered him sitting on a mattress, the place Model’s physique lay beneath, in response to court docket data.
On the time, Levy — a intercourse offender with a previous forcible oral copulation conviction — was in jail going through a misdemeanor vandalism cost for allegedly ransacking the midway home the place he lived.
The 2 had been in a module meant to accommodate folks with psychological sickness, which has been a controversial subject at Santa Rita Jail. The jail now operates beneath a consent decree geared toward bettering psychological well being care and situations for inmates after a number of drug overdoses, suicides and killings.
