US EditionCalifornia man sentenced to 27 years for making racist threats against pregnant Black woman
Tyson Theodore Mayfield, a self-proclaimed skinhead with violent prior convictions, was resentenced after an appellate court rejected his initial five-year term as too lenient.
- Tyson Mayfield, 49, a California man with a swastika tattoo and prior convictions for racist attacks, was sentenced to 27 years to life in prison for making racist threats against a pregnant Black woman in 2018.
- Mayfield had previously pleaded guilty to a court-offered deal for a 5-year sentence, which prosecutors appealed as too lenient given his history of hate crimes.
- An appeals panel rejected the initial 5-year sentence, leading to Mayfield's retrial and conviction for making criminal threats with a hate crime enhancement.
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California man sentenced to 27 years for making racist threats against pregnant Black woman
A California man has been sentenced to 27 years to life in prison for making racist threats against a pregnant Black woman after prosecutors appealed an earlier, lighter sentence.
White supremacist who threatened pregnant Black woman in Fullerton gets 27 years to life in prison
A man who chased, threatened and yelled racial slurs at a pregnant Black woman at a Fullerton bus stop was re-sentenced Friday, Aug. 29 to 27 years to life in prison, after an appellate court found that his previous five-year sentence for the hate crime driven confrontation was not harsh enough. Tyson Theodore Mayfield — who prosecutors described as a self-proclaimed skinhead with swastika and SS lightning bolt tattoos — was sentenced as a third…
O.C. skinhead sentenced to 27 years for hate crime against a pregnant black woman - New Santa Ana
SANTA ANA, Calif. – A third-strike self-proclaimed skinhead with a history of violence and committing hate crimes was sentenced to 27 years to life for criminal threats and a hate crime for chasing an 8-month pregnant black woman from a Fullerton bus stop and threatening to kill her unborn child while hurling racist epithets at the woman. “There is no such thing as an accidental racist. Hate is learned. It is practiced and it is perfected by tho…
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