Overview

• Orange County Superior Court Judge Michael J. Cassidy imposed a 27-years-to-life sentence on Friday under California’s Three Strikes law after a jury conviction earlier this year.
• A 2019 five-year plea deal from Judge Roger B. Robbins was overturned in 2020 when an appeals panel found he abused his discretion by setting aside a prior strike.
• Prosecutors described Tyson Theodore Mayfield, 49, as a self-proclaimed skinhead with swastika and SS tattoos and detailed a history of racially motivated assaults.
• In the 2018 Fullerton attack, he shouted slurs at an eight-months-pregnant woman, threatened to make her “drop” her baby, was pepper-sprayed, and was arrested after chasing her into a café.
• District Attorney Todd Spitzer pushed for a longer punishment, and the victim told the court she developed PTSD and asked for more than the original five-year term.