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**FILE** Linda Door of Laguna Beach, Calif., protests outside the United States Supreme Court in Washington on March 26, 2012, as the court begins hearing arguments on the constitutionality of President Obama's health care overhaul, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (Associated Press)

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Police investigators on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, examine the contents of the wallet of a victim of a collision between the passenger ferry MV Thomas Aquinas and the cargo ship Sulpicio Express Siete near Cebu, Philippines, on Friday night. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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South African runner Oscar Pistorius (center) cries as he prays with his sister Aimee and brother Carl in the magistrates court in Pretoria, South Africa, on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013. Mr. Pistorius was indicted Monday on charges of murder and illegal possession of ammunition in the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. (AP Photo)

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., addressing the American Bar Association last week in San Francisco, called for major changes to the criminal justice system that would cut back the use of mandatory minimum sentences for certain drug-related crimes. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)

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**FILE** This photo shows armed members of a local self-defense group wearing white T-shirts with the slogan "For a Free Aquila" stand at a street corner in the town of Aquila, Mexico, on July 23, 2013. At least 23 bodies were found in two neighboring states in western Mexico where drug cartels, vigilantes and security forces have been fighting for much of the year, authorities said on Aug. 17, 2013. The state prosecutor in Michoacan said that nine bodies, hands bound and shot, were found on an abandoned property near the town of Buenavista Tomatlan along with a sign indicating they may have been members of the Knights Templar cartel. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Protesters sit July 24, 2013, across the street from the federal courthouse in Detroit after a judge stopped any lawsuits challenging the city's bankruptcy. Aug. 19, 2013, is the deadline for a host of banks, bond insurers, two employee pension systems and others standing to lose big if a federal judge declares Detroit insolvent to legally file their objections to the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Nov. 26, 2012, file photo provided by Iredell County, NC, sheriff’s department, actress Lisa Robin Kelly is shown after her arrest for assault. Her manager, Craig Wyckoff, said Kelly died Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013, at a Los Angeles addiction treatment facility she had entered early this week. No official cause of death was disclosed. (AP Photo/Iredell County, NC, Sheriff’s Department, File)