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This photo provided by the Brookfield Police Dept. shows Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer, Wis. Deputies are searching for Haughton on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, who's suspected of wounding multiple people in a shooting at a spa near a suburban Milwaukee shopping mall. (AP Photo/Brookfield Police Dept)

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Portland attorney Kelly Clark holds a letter at an Oct., 18, 2012, press conference in Portland, Ore., to the U.S. Congress regarding some of the 14,500 pages of previously confidential documents created by the Boy Scouts of America concerning child sexual abuse within the organization. The documents were publicly released despite The Boy Scouts' fight to keep those files confidential. (Associated Press)

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Portland attorney Paul Mones (right), with Kelly Clark, talks at a Oct., 18, 2012, press conference in Portland, Ore., about some of the 14,500 pages of previously confidential documents created by the Boy Scouts of America concerning child sexual abuse within the organization. The documents were publicly released despite The Boy Scouts' fight to keep those files confidential. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Kerry Lewis (left) leans into his lawyer, Paul Mones, in a Portland, Ore., courtroom on April 13, 2010, after a jury found the Boy Scouts of America negligent for repeated sexual abuse of Lewis by an assistant Scoutmaster in the 1980s. (Associated Press/The Oregonian)

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**FILE** Plaintiff Kerry Lewis reacts April 13, 2010, after the verdict in Portland, Ore., where a jury found the Boy Scouts of America negligent for repeated sexual abuse by an assistant Scoutmaster in the 1980s. (Associated Press)

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Portland attorney Kelly Clark examines Oct., 16, 2012, in his office in Portland, Ore., some of the 14,500 pages of previously confidential documents created by the Boy Scouts of America concerning child sexual abuse within the organization. The documents were released two days later, despite The Boy Scouts of America's fight to keep those files confidential. (Associated Press)

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Brookfield Police Chief Dan Tushaus briefs reporters in an evening news conference in Brookfield, Wis., on Oct. 21, 2012, after a man who had been accused of domestic violence and slashing his wife's tires took a gun into the spa where she worked and shot seven women, three fatally, before killing himself. (Associated Press)

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A Free Syrian Army fighter fires his weapon toward Syrian army positions in the Karmal Jabl district of Aleppo, Syria, on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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Police and protesters clash after the funeral of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

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Police and protesters clash after the funeral of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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A woman kisses a Cuban student after voting in municipal elections in Havana Sunday Oct. 21, 2012. Cuban school children known as "pioneros" are in all polling stations during elections overseeing the process.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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** FILE ** DYRS Director Neil Stanley previously served as the agency’s general counsel and held executive-level positions at other D.C. departments. In announcing his appointment, Mayor Vincent C. Gray said he had “a strong blend of public management and juvenile justice experience” and called him a friend of progressives who was sensitive to law enforcement issues. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Brookfield Chief of Police Steven Stelter speaks with reporters in Brookfield, Wis., Sunday , Oct. 21, 2012. The man police suspected of killing three and wounding four by opening fire at a tranquil day spa was found dead following a six-hour manhunt that locked down a shopping center, country club and hospital in suburban Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

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This photo provided by the Brookfield Police Dept. shows Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer, Wis. Deputies are searching for Haughton on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, who's suspected of wounding multiple people in a shooting at a spa near a suburban Milwaukee shopping mall. (AP Photo/Brookfield Police Dept)

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Emergency vehicles stage across the street from Azana Salon after a shooting in Brookfield, Wis. Sunday , Oct. 21, 2012. Deputies searched Sunday for a shooter after multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at a spa near a suburban Milwaukee shopping mall(AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

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Kelly Clark looks some of 14,500 pages of documents the Boy Scouts of America created about child sexual abuse within Scouting from 1959 to 1985. Mr. Clark’s law firm got permission from the Oregon Supreme Court to release the files online. (Associated Press)