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Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, who in 1977 was the supervising Brooklyn judge in the arraignment of the "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz, listens during an interview in his office, Wednesday Aug. 9, 2017, in New York. Brown recalls that when Berkowitz first walked into a Brooklyn courtroom 40 years ago, it was dead silent but for the wail of a victim’s mother. It was first time anyone really got a glimpse of the man who had been accused of terrorizing New York City for a whole year with late-night shootings. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, who in 1977 was the supervising Brooklyn judge in the arraignment of the "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz, shows a court document recommending his release, during an interview in his office, Wednesday Aug. 9, 2017, in New York. Forty years ago city officials actually recommended Berkowitz be free on bail, but Brown disagreed and held him for killing six and wounding seven,primarily young women sitting in cars. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, who in 1977 was the supervising Brooklyn judge in the arraignment of the "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz, display news clippings about the case during an interview in his office, Wednesday Aug. 9, 2017, in New York. Brown recalls that when David Berkowitz first walked into a Brooklyn courtroom 40 years ago, it was dead silent but for the wail of a victim’s mother. It was first time anyone really got a glimpse of the man who had been accused of terrorizing New York City for a whole year with late-night shootings. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, who in 1977 was the supervising Brooklyn judge in the arraignment of the "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz, listens during an interview in his office while an aide, right, shuffles through case clippings, Wednesday Aug. 9, 2017, in New York. Brown recalls that when Berkowitz first walked into a Brooklyn courtroom 40 years ago, it was dead silent but for the wail of a victim’s mother. It was first time anyone really got a glimpse of the man who had been accused of terrorizing New York City for a whole year with late-night shootings. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, who in 1977 was the supervising Brooklyn judge in the arraignment of the "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz, shows the court transcript of the case during an interview in his office, Wednesday Aug. 9, 2017, in New York. Brown recalls that when Berkowitz first walked into a Brooklyn courtroom 40 years ago, it was dead silent but for the wail of a victim’s mother. It was first time anyone really got a glimpse of the man who had been accused of terrorizing New York City for a whole year with late-night shootings. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, who in 1977 was the supervising Brooklyn judge in the arraignment of the "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz, listens during an interview in his office, Wednesday Aug. 9, 2017, in New York. Brown recalls that when Berkowitz first walked into a Brooklyn courtroom 40 years ago, it was dead silent but for the wail of a victim’s mother. It was first time anyone really got a glimpse of the man who had been accused of terrorizing New York City for a whole year with late-night shootings. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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FILE - In this Aug. 3, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Two LGBT-rights organizations filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, challenging President Donald Trump's tweets declaring he wants a ban on transgender people serving in the military. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2016, file photo, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein prepares to spray-paint "I approve this message" in red paint on the blade of a bulldozer at a protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline in the area of Morton County, N.D. Stein has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors to resolve criminal charges filed against her in North Dakota nearly a year ago for protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline, court records show. (Alicia Ewen/KX News via AP, File)
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Ian Simpson, right, of Provo, Ut., gives a kiss to his wife, Lauren, as they wait at the head of the line for the public wait to get courtroom seats to view the third day of a civil trial to determine whether a radio host groped pop singer Taylor Swift in a case in federal court Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, in Denver. former DJ David Mueller, who sued Swift after she said he touched her backside before a concert in Denver in 2013. He's seeking at least $3 million. Swift countersued for sexual assault and is seeking $1. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis participates in an enhanced honor cordon with Vietnam Defense Minister Gen. Ngo Xuan Lich at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Jim Brenner, left, and Chuck Jones, discuss Florida Gov. Rick Scott's failure to sign an order protecting gay and lesbian state workers from discrimination on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)
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In this June 28, 2017, photo, Patrick Pursley and his fiancee, Michelle Carr, talk in his attorney's office in Chicago about how reexamination of ballistic evidence helped him get a new trial for a 1994 murder he says he didn't commit. The case marks the first time someone has gotten a new trial by using a ballistics software that investigators have been using to put countless criminals behind bars. Pursley is free on bail and living with his fiancee while he waits for a new trial. (AP Photo/Ivan Moreno)
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In this image provided by Lucy Yvart, a member of the French security forces looks on at the scene on a highway between Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais in northern France where a vehicle was stopped and a man was arrested that authorities say was involved in an attack on soldiers near Paris on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. French authorities say the driver was arrested and injured by police fire, and is considered the chief suspect in the attack on the soldiers. (Lucy Yvart via AP)
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A Haitian boy holds onto his father as they approach an illegally crossing point, staffed by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers, from Champlain, N.Y., to Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, Monday, Aug. 7, 2017. Seven days a week, 24-hours a day people from across the globe are arriving at the end of a New York backroad so they can walk across a ditch into Canada knowing they will be instantly arrested, but with the hope the Canadian government will be kinder to them than the United States. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Attorneys for pop singer Taylor Swift head back to a hotel after the second day of a civil trial to determine whether a radio host groped pop singer Taylor Swift in a case in federal court Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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In this courtroom sketch, pop singer Taylor Swift, front left, confers with her attorney as David Mueller, back left, and the judge look on during a civil trial in federal court Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Denver. Mueller, a former radio disc jockey accused of groping Swift before a concert testified Tuesday that he may have touched the pop superstar's ribs with a closed hand as he tried to jump into a photo with her but insisted he did not touch her backside as she claims. (Jeff Kandyba via AP)
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A woman yawns as she waits to be processed at an illegally crossing point, staffed by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers, in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017. Seven days a week, 24-hours a day people from across the globe are arriving at the end of a New York backroad so they can walk across a ditch into Canada knowing they will be instantly arrested, but with the hope the Canadian government will be kinder to them than the United States. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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A Haitian boy holds onto his father as they approach an illegally crossing point, staffed by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers, from Champlain, N.Y., to Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, Monday, Aug. 7, 2017. Seven days a week, 24-hours a day people from across the globe are arriving at the end of a New York backroad so they can walk across a ditch into Canada knowing they will be instantly arrested, but with the hope the Canadian government will be kinder to them than the United States. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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As utility crews extend the power grid to a complex of tents, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, right, stands on the Canadian side of pathway, that serves as an illegally crossing point from Champlain, N.Y., to Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, Monday, Aug. 7, 2017. Migrants crossing into Canada are processed by the RCMP in the tents before being turned over to the Canada Border Services Agency. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Luggage from migrants fills a pathway at an illegally crossing point from Champlain, N.Y., to Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, Monday, Aug. 7, 2017. Officials on both sides of the border first began to notice last fall, around the time of the U.S. presidential election, that more people were crossing at Roxham Road. Since then the numbers have continued to climb. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
