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Rapper Kidd Creole, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is arraigned in New York, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, after he was arrested Wednesday on a murder charge. A law enforcement official says the lyricist and founding member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5 stabbed a homeless man to death after a passing remark made him think the man was hitting on him. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool)
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This photo released Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, by San Jose Police Department shows suspect Gail Burnworth, a resident of Tacoma, Wash., who was one of two people arrested after a sharp-eyed airline passenger saw another traveler texting about sexually assaulting children. San Jose police say they arrested 56-year-old Michael Kellar in the city’s airport Monday night after a flight from Seattle. Officers arrested 50-year-old Gail Burnworth in her Tacoma home. (San Jose Police Department via AP)
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This photo released Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, by San Jose Police Department shows suspect Michael Kellar, 56, a resident of Tacoma, Wash., who was arrested by police after a fellow airline passenger on Monday, July 31, 2017, spotted him texting someone about sexually exploiting children. The witness contacted authorities as soon as the plane landed. Police say Kellar was texting Gail Burnworth, who was also arrested. (San Jose Police Department via AP)
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With her defense attorney Joseph Cataldo at left, Michelle Carter listens to her sentencing for involuntary manslaughter for encouraging 18-year-old Conrad Roy III to kill himself in July 2014. Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. She was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter. (Matt West/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
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Conrad Roy's sister Camden gives her victim impact statement before Michelle Carter is sentenced Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, in Taunton, Mass. Carter was convicted in June by a judge who said her final instruction to Conrad Roy III caused his death. She was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter. (Matt West/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
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Conrad Roy, Jr. testifies about the loss of his son during his victim impact statement before Michelle Carter's sentencing for involuntary manslaughter for encouraging 18-year-old Conrad Roy III to kill himself in July 2014, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 in Taunton, Mass. Carter was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter. (Matt West/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
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With her defense attorney Joseph Cataldo at left, Michelle Carter listens to her sentencing for involuntary manslaughter for encouraging 18-year-old Conrad Roy III to kill himself in July 2014. Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, in Taunton, Mass. Carter was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter. (Matt West/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
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Conrad Roy III's mother Lynn, right, cries as her husband Conrad Roy Jr reads his victim impact statement in court in Taunton, Mass., before Michelle Carter's sentencing for involuntary manslaughter Thursday, August 3, 2017 for encouraging 18-year-old Conrad Roy III to kill himself in July 2014. (Matt West/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
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Followed by her parents, Michelle Carter arrives for her sentencing at a courtroom in Taunton, Mass., Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, for involuntary manslaughter for encouraging Conrad Roy III to kill himself in July 2014. (Matt West/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
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Michelle Carter awaits her sentencing in a courtroom in Taunton, Mass., Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, for involuntary manslaughter for encouraging Conrad Roy III to kill himself in July 2014. Carter was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter.(Matt West/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
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This July 20, 2017, photo released by the Johnson County Sheriff's Office in Iowa City, Iowa, shows Curtis Cortez Jones, who is charged with murder in the June 27 shooting of an Iowa City cab driver. Jones had been granted parole in 2016 despite being considered a high risk to commit violence. (Johnson County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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This August 2017 photo released by the Spotsylvania (Va.) Sheriff's Office shows Kariem Ali Muhammad Moore. A woman and her two children escaped from captivity inside a home in Virginia when deputies were sent to check on their welfare, authorities said. Moore, 43, was arrested at the scene on Saturday, July 29, 2017 and held without bond at the Rappahannock Regional Jail on multiple felony counts including abduction and assault. (Spotsylvania (Va.) Sheriff's Office via AP)
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FILE - In this March 31, 2017, file photo, students board a school bus after class at Columbus Elementary School in Columbus, N.M. A high-stakes legal battle focused on the plight of New Mexico's most vulnerable public school students is headed toward an end. After two months of testimony, a state district court judge may reshape the way public schools are funded and guided by the state. Testimony is scheduled to end Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2015 file photo, Panama's former President Ricardo Martinelli answers questions during an interview at a hotel in Guatemala City. A federal magistrate judge is hearing arguments Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, to determine whether 65-year-old Ricardo Martinelli can remain in the U.S. or must return to Panama for trial. Martinelli was Panama's president from 2009-2014. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
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FILE - In this June 21, 2016 file photo, traffic make its way along historic Route 66 in downtown Albuquerque, N.M. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is cracking down on so-called sanctuary cities, threatening to keep federal crime-fighting resources from cities ravaged by violence if they don't cooperate with federal immigration authorities. The Justice Department sent letters to Baltimore, Albuquerque, and Stockton and San Bernardino, Calif., telling them they will be ineligible for a new program if they don't step up efforts to help detain and deport those in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2016 file photo, traffic moves past the Kimo Theater along historic Route 66 in downtown Albuquerque, N.M. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is cracking down on so-called sanctuary cities, threatening to keep federal crime-fighting resources from cities ravaged by violence if they don't cooperate with federal immigration authorities. The Justice Department sent letters to Baltimore, Albuquerque, and Stockton and San Bernardino, Calif., telling them they will be ineligible for a new program if they don't step up efforts to help detain and deport those in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)
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FILE - This Jan. 21, 2015 file photo, Lyle Jeffs leaves the federal courthouse in Salt Lake City. Jeffs, the polygamous sect leader caught recently after he was on the run for a year, was in a pair of accidents in the late 1990s that must be investigated to determine whether the head injuries he suffered caused brain damage, his lawyer said Wednesday, August 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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In this July 6, 2016, file photo, Oscar Pistorius leaves the High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, after a judge passed a new sentence of six years imprisonment after his conviction was changed to murder for shooting girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013. Pistorius has been taken from prison to a hospital for medical examinations and will be kept at the facility overnight, it was reported on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017. South African media reports say he was complaining of chest pains. (AP Photo/Marco Longari, Pool Photo via AP, File)
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In this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017 photo, Stephanie Taylor-Silva talks about her experiences with the judicial system at the Probation and Parole Bureau in Idaho Falls, Idaho. For the first time in 15 years, Taylor-Silva is operating with a clean slate free of her criminal history. (Monte LaOrange/The Idaho Post-Register via AP)
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FILE - In a Sept. 20, 2006 file photo, Maryland Treasurer Nancy Kopp speaks to Elections Administrator Linda Lamone as Gov. Ehrlich listens, at the Statehouse in Annapolis, Md. Maryland's health secretary and the head of the Maryland Department of Planning are suing Kopp for their salaries. Health Secretary Dennis Schrader and Wendi Peters, who heads the planning department, filed the lawsuit against Kopp on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017 in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. (AP Photo/Matt Houston, File)
