California man sentenced to life in the murder of gay former …
6 days ago · The sentencing comes more than four months after Samuel Lincoln Woodward, 26, of Newport Beach, California, was convicted of first-degree murder along with a hate crime enhancement and personal ...
Blaze Bernstein killing: Samuel Woodward sentenced to life for …
Nov 16, 2024 · Gideon Bernstein and Jeanne Pepper Bernstein, parents of Blaze Bernstein, speak during a press conference after Samuel Woodward was sentenced to life without parole at Orange County Superior Court ...
Former classmate sentenced to life without parole in murder ... - ABC News
Nov 15, 2024 · Bernstein, 19, was stabbed to death in a park in 2018. Samuel Woodward, a California man found guilty of murdering his former classmate in 2018 in a hate crime, was sentenced to life in prison ...
Murderer of former Penn student Blaze Bernstein sentenced to life …
5 days ago · The sentencing took place in an Orange County, Calif. courtroom without Woodward’s presence. Woodward’s defense and the judge presiding over the sentencing attributed his absence to an unspecified illness. “With every hateful stab of his knife, Samuel Woodward stabbed at the very heart of our entire community,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a public statement ...
Former classmate sentenced to life for hate crime killing of Blaze ...
Nov 16, 2024 · Samuel Woodward, 27, was found guilty in July of first-degree murder with special allegations that the killing was motivated by hate and that it was committed using a weapon. On Friday, Woodward refused to come out of his jail cell for a courtroom appearance during his sentencing in Orange County.
Calif. man with ties to neo-Nazi group sentenced for luring and …
4 days ago · ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. (TCN) -- A 27-year-old man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for leading his former high school classmate to believe they were meeting up for a romantic encounter and fatally stabbing him 28 times. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced Nov. 15 that a jury convicted Samuel Woodward of first-degree murder along with a hate crime enhancement and ...
Blaze Bernstein trial: Samuel Woodward sentenced to life
Nov 15, 2024 · A jury has found Samuel Woodward guilty of the 2018 murder of his former classmate Blaze Bernstein with a sentencing enhancement for a hate crime. Woodward testified he took two hits off a heady ...
California Man Sentenced to Life for Hate Crime in the Killing of a …
Nov 15, 2024 · Samuel Woodward, 27, was sentenced in a Southern California courtroom at the end of an all-day hearing for the murder of Blaze Bernstein nearly seven years ago. Woodward, who did did not appear in ...
Samuel Woodward sentenced to life for killing gay US student
BBC News. Getty Images. Samuel Woodward. A California man found guilty of murdering a gay, Jewish US university student in a hate crime has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility ...
Former classmate sentenced to life without parole in murder of …
Nov 15, 2024 · Samuel Woodward, a California man found guilty of murdering his former classmate in 2018 in a hate crime, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday.. Blaze Bernstein -- a 19-year-old gay, Jewish student at the University of Pennsylvania -- went missing while visiting his family in Newport Beach during winter break in January 2018.