Conviction Reached in High-Profile Hate Crime Stabbing of College Student in Orange County
SANTA ANA, Calif. — A Southern California man was found guilty of first-degree murder on Wednesday, with jurors additionally convicting him of committing a hate crime in the fatal stabbing of a homosexual former classmate in 2018. Samuel Woodward, of Orange County, was convicted for the murder of 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein, whose body was discovered in a shallow grave in Borrego Park, Lake Forest, after being stabbed multiple times in the face and neck. The …