Blaze Bernstein murder case: Samuel Woodward will be charged with a hate crime, DA says

SANTA ANA – Samuel Lincoln Woodward will now face a hate-crime enhancement as well.
If prosecutors win their case and convict him on all charges, he would be eligible to receive a sentence of life in prision without the chance for parole.
The new charge was announced by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office on Thursday afternoon.
Woodward, 21, is accused of stabbing to death his former high school classmate Blaze Bernstein, whose body was found in a shallow grave at Borrego Pa