SANTA ANA, CA - JANUARY 17: Samuel Lincoln Woodward, 20, of Newport Beach, a suspect in the murder of 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein, appears in court at the Orange County Central Justice Center on January 17, 2018 in Santa Ana, California. Woodward is charged with murder with a sentencing enhancement of personal use of a knife. (Photo by Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
  • Samuel Woodward, 27, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2018 hate crime murder of Blaze Bernstein, a gay University of Pennsylvania student.
  • The murder was deemed a hate crime, with Bernstein targeted because he was gay and Jewish. 
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