A Lawton Correctional Facility inmate was found guilty of assaulting a corrections officer following a single day of trial.
On Wednesday, a Comanche County jury found Michael Cypert, 50, guilty of a felony count of assault and battery on a corrections officer, records indicate. The jury recommended he serve 12 years in prison.
Cyper was found not guilty in District Judge Jay Walker’s court of one count of assault and battery on a corrections officer and of being a prisoner placing body fluid on a government employee.
The jury found Cypert assaulted one detention officer in June 2022, punching him repeatedly in the face and head, causing the officer to be medically evacuated. He was found not guilty of punching a female detention officer in the head and body about 15 minutes later before being stopped.
In January 2023, a Comanche County jury found Cypert guilty of assaulting and injuring another corrections officer at Lawton Correctional Facility, 8607 SE Flower Mound Road. He was sentenced to serve four years in prison.
Cypert has been serving a 30-year sentence at the Lawton prison for a second-degree murder conviction from Tulsa County from April 2012. Records indicate he also has an August 1999 conviction in Arkansas for distribution of narcotics with intent to distribute.
Cypert will be sentenced at 4 p.m. Friday, records indicate.
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