Law_Crime

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IRS employee Lois G. Lerner testified in May for a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, where she asserted her Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination and proclaimed her innocence. (Associated Press)

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Paul Butterfield, the father of slain Michigan State Police Trooper Paul Butterfield II, cries as the verdict is read in Eric Knysz's murder trial Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, in Ludington, Mich. A jury found Knyz, 20, of Irons, Mich, guilty on Tuesday of first-degree murder in the killing a Michigan state trooper Paul Butterfield II during a traffic stop last September. Butterfield's wife Patricia Butterfield is sitting next to him. (AP Photo/The Muskegon Chronicle, Ken Stevens) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT.

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Grandmother Phyllis Knysz, left, and her son John Knysz stand behind their grandson and son Eric Knysz as they wait during jury deliberations in Knysz's murder trial Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, in Ludington, Mich. The jury found Knyz, 20, of Irons, Mich, guilty of first-degree murder in the killing a Michigan state trooper Paul Butterfield II during a traffic stop last September. (AP Photo/The Muskegon Chronicle, Ken Stevens) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT.

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Jennifer Sielski, fiancee of slain Michigan State Police Trooper Paul K. Butterfield II embraces Mason County Prosecutor Paul Spaniola after a jury convicted Eric Knysz of first-degree murder in the killing of Butterfield Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, in Ludington, Mich. Knysz, 20, of Irons, Mich., was on trial in the September shooting of the 43-year-old state trooper. (AP Photo/The Muskegon Chronicle, Ken Stevens) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT.

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FILE - This July, 24, 2013 file photo provided by the U.S. Naval Academy, shows Midshipman Joshua Tate, of Nashville, Tenn. One of Tate's lawyers said, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, that the sexual assault case against his client, a former Naval Academy football player, is going forward after a military judge rejected defense lawyers’ request to throw out the case for a lack of evidence. (AP Photo/U.S. Naval Academy, File)

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This undated photo released by Gomez Trial Attorneys courtesy the Pankey family, shows Aidan Pankey and one of his pet rats. Lawyers representing the Pankey family have filed a lawsuit against Petco Animal Supplies Inc., saying Aidan died from rat-bite fever contracted from a male rat purchased at one of the national chain's stores. (AP Photo/Courtesy Pankey Family)

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In this Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014 photo released by Mexico's Attorney General Office (PGR), Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman opens his mouth for a DNA test after his detention in Mexico City. Guzman was captured on the morning of Feb. 22, 2014 in Mexico's Pacific coast city of Mazatlan after 13 years on the run as fugitive head of the Sinaloa cartel. (AP Photo/PGR)

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Sara Medina, from Mexico's Attorney General Office (PGR) expert services, shows two combined images of Joaquin Guzman Loera, alias El Chapo, at a news conference in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. Medina said that the PGR combined pictures taken of Guzman from his two arrests to positively identify him, among other tests, to be certain that the man detained on Saturday was indeed the drug lord. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)