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Mesa, Arizona Mayor Scott Smith, a Republican, leaves the Capitol, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 in Phoenix after Smith filed paperwork to enter the Arizona Governor's race. Smith said his experience as a business leader and leader of the state's third-largest city makes him a standout choice for the nomination. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Mesa, Arizona Mayor Scott Smith, a Republican, and his wife Kimberly Smith, leave the Capitol, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 in Phoenix after Smith filed paperwork to enter the Arizona Governor's race. Smith said his experience as a business leader and leader of the state's third-largest city makes him a standout choice for the nomination. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Mesa, Arizona Mayor Scott Smith, a Republican, and his wife Kimberly Smith, speak to reporters at the Capitol, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 in Phoenix prior to Smith filing paperwork to enter the Arizona Governor's race. Smith is joining a Republican primary election field that already includes two statewide officeholders, Secretary of State Ken Bennett and Treasurer Doug Ducey. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Mesa, Arizona Mayor Scott Smith, a Republican, speaks to reporters at the Capitol, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 in Phoenix after Smith filed paperwork to enter the Arizona Governor's race. Smith is joining a Republican primary election field that already includes two statewide officeholders, Secretary of State Ken Bennett and Treasurer Doug Ducey. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2012, file photo, Trenton Mayor Tony Mack walks from City Hall in Trenton, N.J., on his way to arraignment in Federal Court on bribery, extortion and fraud charges. On Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, attorneys are selecting a jury for the federal corruption trial of Trenton's mayor. Mack has remained in office since his arrest in late 2012, on extortion and bribery charges for allegedly soliciting and accepting payments in connection with a downtown parking garage deal. The deal was fictitious, and the people offering the alleged bribes were government informants. (AP Photo/Mel Evans,file)
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Tony Mack, mayor of New Jersey's capital city, Trenton, listens to a question as he walks from Federal Court in Trenton, N.J., on Monday, Jan. 6, 2014, during a break in jury selection for his trial on extortion and bribery charges. Mack has remained in office since his arrest in late 2012. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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FILE - This July 30, 2012 photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death row inmate Jerry Lard in Varner, Ark. The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction against Lard who was sentenced to death for fatally shooting a police officer during a traffic stop in northeast Arkansas. (AP Photo/Arkansas Department of Correction, File)
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FILE - In this April 19, 2012, file photo, Jerry D. Lard, center, is escorted from the Craighead County Courthouse in Jonesboro, Ark. The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction against Lard who was sentenced to death for fatally shooting a police officer during a traffic stop in northeast Arkansas. (AP Photo/The Jonesboro Sun, Saundra Sovick, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2013, file photo supporters pass out flowers in Maryville, Mo., before a rally for Daisy Coleman, a girl who says she was sexually assaulted when she was 14. Matt Barnett, accused of sexually assaulting Coleman when he was 17, was charged Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, with a misdemeanor child endangerment charge. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)
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In this photo provided by the Nodaway County, Mo., Sheriff's Department is Matt Barnett. The 19-year-old, accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old schoolmate when he was 17, was charged Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 with a misdemeanor child endangerment charge. He is scheduled to be arraigned later Thursday. (AP Photo/Nodaway County Sheriff's Department)
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Former Fullerton police officers Jay Cicinelli, left, and Manuel Ramos listen with Ramos' defense attorney, John D. Barnett, right, as Orange County district attorney Tony Rackauckas delivers his rebuttal closing argument in the case against them stemming from the death of Kelly Thomas, a homeless man, who died after a violent 2011 confrontation with the [then] officers, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 in Santa Ana, Calf. The jury got the case Thursday after closing arguments ended in the five-week trial. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Joshua Sudock, Pool)