SPOKANE, Wash. — Family, friends and attorneys are preparing to go back to court for a case thought to be closed 15 years ago, as Justin Crenshaw, the man convicted of brutally stabbing two young people in Spokane in 2008 , is set to be resentenced.

For the last 15 years, Crenshaw has been locked away. He was sentenced in 2010 to two consecutive life sentences after he was convicted of a double homicide.

Crenshaw was found guilty of killing Sarah Clark and Tanner Pehl in February 2008. Prosecutors say Crenshaw set Pehl’s house on fire to hide his crime after stabbing his friends multiple times with a sword.

Now, that life sentence and Crenshaw’s age at the time of the crime mean he will get a new sentence. In 2021, Washington’s Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences for off

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