Tyson Mayfield, 49, was sentenced to 27 years to life after being retried and convicted of making criminal threats with a hate-crime enhancement. Mayfield pleaded guilty in 2019 to a court-offered deal that would have given him five years, a deal opposed and later appealed by the Orange County District Attorney's office. The appeals panel rejected the earlier sentence, prompting retrial. The victim was an eight-month pregnant Black woman threatened with racial slurs at a Fullerton bus stop in 2018; she used pepper spray and sought help. Authorities cited Mayfield's prior violent convictions, swastika tattoo, and earlier racist attack.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) A California man was sentenced Friday to 27 years to life in prison for making racist threats against a pregnant Black woman after prosecutors appealed an earlier, lighter sentence, officials said. Tyson Mayfield, 49, pleaded guilty in a court-offered deal in 2019 to get a five-year sentence that the Orange County District Attorney's office opposed and later appealed. An appeals panel rejected the decision, and Mayfield was retried and convicted of making criminal threats with an enhancement for a hate crime.
Over the last six years we have fought and fought and fought for justice in this case, District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement. Justice was finally served today against a man who spent decades hating others, and now he will spend decades behind bars where he belongs. A message was left at the public defender's office seeking comment.
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