A Newport Beach man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the anti-LGBTQ and antisemitic hate crime killing of his former classmate, Blaze Bernstein.
“It’s almost seven years that we’ve waited for this day for justice,” said Bernstein’s mother, Jeanne Pepper. “We have a victory for humanity today, an absolute victory.”
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.
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