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John Floyd stands in front of the Hale Boggs Federal Building and Courthouse in New Orleans, Thursday, June 22, 2017. Floyd, who was imprisoned for 36 years, walked free Thursday after a federal judge threw out his murder conviction and life sentence for a newspaper editor's stabbing in the French Quarter of New Orleans. (AP Photo/Sophia Germer)
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John Floyd smiles as he leaves the Hale Boggs Federal Building and Courthouse in New Orleans, Thursday, June 22, 2017. Floyd, who was imprisoned for 36 years, walked free Thursday after a federal judge threw out his murder conviction and life sentence for a newspaper editor's stabbing in the French Quarter of New Orleans. (AP Photo/Sophia Germer)
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FILE - In a May 4, 2006 file photo, Brendan Dassey, center, is lead out of the Manitowoc County Courthouse following his motion hearing in Manitowoc, Wis. A three-judge panel from the 7th Circuit on Thursday, June 22, 2017 affirmed that Dassey, a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" was coerced into confessing and should be released from prison. Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in photographer Teresa Halbach's death two years earlier. (Eric Young/Herald-Times Reporter via AP, File)
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FILE - In this June 17, 2017 file photo, Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Cosby will organize a series of town hall meetings to help educate young people about problems their misbehavior could create, a spokesman for Cosby said Thursday, June 22. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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A traveler walks her bags up the roadway as a police officer guides traffic flow after Bishop International Airport reopens in Flint, Mich., Wednesday, June 21, 2017, after a police officer was stabbed at the airport. A Canadian man shouted in Arabic before stabbing a police officer in the neck at the airport on Wednesday, and referenced people being killed overseas during the attack that's now being investigated as an act of terrorism, federal officials said. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)
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This undated file photo released by the Mohave County, Ariz., Sheriff's Office shows Nicholios Nealy. An Arizona couple has been charged as authorities seek a missing 4-month-old girl born to the woman in Nevada. Mohave County attorney's office investigator Steve Auld said Thursday, June 22, 2017 authorities tracked down the people who dropped off the baby at the Portals to Glory Pentecostal church in North Las Vegas last week. The reported parents, Nicholios Nealy and Octavia Jackson, remained jailed in Kingman, Arizona, and face felony charges including custodial interference and perjury.(Mohave County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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This undated file photo released by the Mohave County, Ariz., Sheriff's Office shows Octivia Jackson. An Arizona couple has been charged as authorities seek a missing 4-month-old girl born to the woman in Nevada. Mohave County attorney's office investigator Steve Auld said Thursday, June 22, 2017, authorities tracked down the people who dropped off the baby at the Portals to Glory Pentecostal church in North Las Vegas last week. The reported parents, Nicholios Nealy and Octavia Jackson, remained jailed in Kingman, Arizona, and face felony charges including custodial interference and perjury. (Mohave County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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FILE - In this April 29, 2016, file photo, David Robert Daleiden, right, with attorney Jared Woodfill leave a courtroom after a hearing in Houston. A federal judge deciding whether a fellow judge should disqualify himself from a lawsuit over an anti-abortion group's videos says he could not readily discern any appearance of bias. U.S. District Court Judge James Donato said Thursday, June 22, 2017, he was having trouble understanding how Judge William Orrick's affiliation with a non-profit and two Facebook "likes" by Orrick's wife created an appearance of bias against defendant David Daleiden. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)
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In this file photo, Timothy Wiley, FBI public affairs specialist, holds a photo Amor Ftouhi after a news conference in Detroit, Thursday, June 22, 2017. Amor Ftouhi, a Canadian man, shouted in Arabic before stabbing a police officer in the neck at the Bishop International Airport in Flint, Mich., federal officials said. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) **FILE**
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David Daleiden, center, one of the two anti-abortion activists who released secretly recorded videos alleging that Planned Parenthood sold fetal tissue to researchers, addresses the media with attorneys Jared Woodfill, left, and Terry Yates after turning himself in to authorities in Houston. w judge should disqualify himself from a lawsuit over an anti-abortion group's videos says he could not readily discern any appearance of bias. U.S. District Court Judge James Donato said Thursday, June 22, 2017, he was having trouble understanding how Judge William Orrick's affiliation with a non-profit and two Facebook "likes" by Orrick's wife created an appearance of bias against defendant David Daleiden. (AP Photo/Bob Levey)
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We paid $27 million for that? (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)
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FILE - In a Friday, March 3, 2006 file photo, Brendan Dassey is escorted out of a Manitowoc County Circuit courtroom, in Manitowoc, Wis. A three-judge panel from the 7th Circuit on Thursday, June 22, 2017 affirmed that Dassey, a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer" was coerced into confessing and should be released from prison. Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in photographer Teresa Halbach's death two years earlier. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)
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FILE- In this May 8, 2017, file photo, protesters hold signs and march outside the US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va. A federal judge said Wednesday, June 21, that a class-action lawsuit challenging a once-secret government program that delayed immigration and citizenship applications by Muslims can move forward. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, file)
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FILE – In this June 10, 2016, file photo, Lincoln Rutledge, right, attends a hearing in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas in Columbus, Ohio. A jury convicted Rutledge of aggravated murder Thursday, June 22, 2017, for fatally shooting Columbus, Ohio, SWAT officer Steven M. Smith in the head April 10, 2016, as officers tried to arrest Rutledge on an arson warrant. Smith died two days later. (Chris Russell/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Franklin County Sheriff's Office in Columbus, Ohio, shows Lincoln Rutledge. A jury convicted Rutledge of aggravated murder Thursday, June 22, 2017, for fatally shooting Columbus, Ohio, SWAT officer Steven M. Smith in the head April 10, 2016, as officers tried to arrest Rutledge on an arson warrant. Smith died two days later. (Franklin County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Columbus, Ohio, Division of Police shows police SWAT officer Steven M. Smith. A jury convicted Lincoln Rutledge of aggravated murder Thursday, June 22, 2017, for fatally shooting Smith in the head April 10, 2016, as officers tried to arrest Rutledge on an arson warrant. Smith died two days later. (Columbus Division of Police via AP, File)
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FILE – This April 10, 2016, file photo shows the charred remains of an apartment building following an overnight standoff between an apartment resident and SWAT officers in the Clintonville neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. A jury convicted Lincoln Rutledge of aggravated murder Thursday, June 22, 2017, for fatally shooting Columbus, Ohio, SWAT officer Steven M. Smith in the head April 10, 2016, as officers tried to arrest Rutledge on an arson warrant. Smith died two days later. (Adam Cairns/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the FBI shows Ahmad Khan Rahami. A federal judge refused Thursday, June 22, 2017, to throw out criminal charges that could result in a mandatory life prison sentence for Rahami. Rahimi, 29, pleaded not guilty to detonating a pipe bomb near a charity run in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and planting two pressure cooker bombs in Manhattan in September. (FBI via AP, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Houston Police Department shows Jared Balogun. On Tuesday, June 20, 2017, police announced that Balogun has been charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a 10-month-old boy who was killed while his father was walking him outside an apartment complex. (Houston Police Department via AP)
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Stephanie Woodward, of Rochester, NY, who has spina bifida and uses a wheelchair, is removed from a sit-in at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office as she and other disability rights advocates protest proposed funding caps to Medicaid, Thursday, June 22, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
