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like many things in life the facts of this case are not simple they're not black and white it's easy to forget how
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symbolic this trial was of a greater problem in the world you will hear strong compelling evidence that explains
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the real reason for this very sad and tragic killing it's been 6 years is it still
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hard to believe that blae is is gone it took a while for it to set in but I'm at peace with it maybe that's
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all that we were supposed to have happy birday dear there were like 19 years with so
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many moments of Brilliance and Beauty Blaze was very creative definitely when we were little
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kids did you want cheese sure we were like attached at the h tried I think of him as somebody whose
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potential for life was completely obliterated blae Bernstein was gay and his killer was a member of a Neo-Nazi
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group undercover officers made their move on Sam Woodward what have you learned about neo-nazis they're
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everywhere they're all over the Internet they're here in Orange County I believe that this was a hate crime the
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26-year-old's appearance has changed dramatically from the time of his arrest back in
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2018 at the trial Sam looked like a spitting image of Charlie Manson it was absolutely terrifying to
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look at the evidence will show you that the defendant killed Blaise Bernstein because he was gay he was gay and Jewish
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hate crime or Crime of Passion the difference is the possibility of parole blae Bernstein was found with 28 stab
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wounds the prosecution has a bit of a higher bar here because they also have to show that Sam murdered blae because
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of his gay identity he had developed his long-standing beliefs against Jewish people and gay
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people what happened that night was not a hate crime we knew that he was going to present some story of what happened
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that night not the targeting of someone because of his sexual orientation what kind of story could he
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come up with Sam Woodward never planned to kill blae Bernstein homophobia sexual repression
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hookup culture it almost never ends the way that this story ends we don't have any control over what the outcome is he
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could be innocent will let a jury decide