Samuel Woodward's attorney admits his client killed a gay Jewish teen but denies it was a hate crime
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Alienated, lonely and "starved for validation," Samuel Woodward found a brief sense of acceptance in the Atomwaffen Division, which preached America's imminent collapse and consciously targeted the ostracized and bullied for recruitment, Woodward's attorney said Tuesday. In his opening statement at Woodward's murder trial, Assistant Public Defender Ken Morrison acknowledged that his client was responsible for the death of 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein, who was Jewish and gay. But despite...

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