SPOKANE, Wash. — Justin Crenshaw, the man convicted of a brutal double homicide in 2008 , filed an appeal on Nov. 5, asking a court to review the new sentence that a Spokane County judge handed down just last month.

Crenshaw was resentenced to two life sentences without parole on Oct. 14, 2025, the same sentence that he was given in 2010 for the crime.

Crenshaw has been in prison for the last 15 years for the double homicide of 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.

In 2021, Washington’s Supreme Court ruled that mandatory life sentences for offenders younger than 21 are unconstitutional, because the individuals are still developing mentally. Crenshaw was 20 years ol

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