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Bernstein's parents testified Thursday in the trial of Samuel Woodward, their sons' former high school classmate.

Bernstein's parents testified Thursday in the trial of Samuel Woodward, their sons' former high school classmate.

Bernstein's parents testified Thursday in the trial of Samuel Woodward, their sons' former high school classmate.

Samuel Woodward, 26, is on trial for the suspected hate crime murder of Blaze Bernstein, his gay, Jewish former classmate, who was found savagely stabbed after flirting with his killer on Tinder.

The criminal case was reinstated Friday, months after the proceedings were placed on hold due to questions about Woodward's mental state.

The attorney stopped short of describing exactly what he believed happened the night of the 2018 killing in the Foothill Ranch area of Lake Forest

Six years after a missing persons search ended with the discovery of Bernstein's body, Woodward's murder trial has begun.

A prosecutor has told jurors that the killing of a gay University of Pennsylvania student in Southern California more than six years ago was a hate crime. The long-delayed trial

Samuel Woodward, a 26-year-old man who was tied to a white supremacist organization, is accused of fatally stabbed a former classmate near his home.

The defendant's attorney admitted his client carried out the killing, but denied it was the result of neo-Nazi beliefs or hatred of gay men, saying the defendant struggled with long-undiagnosed autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder and conflicted sexuality.