Law_Crime

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Timothy Lewis, defense lawyer for former Penn State President Graham Spanier, speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012, in Philadelphia. Spanier is attacking the university-sanctioned report on the Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal, calling it a "blundering and indefensible indictment" of his client. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Chris Mahlangu, right, is led away from the court in Ventersdorp, South Africa, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012, after receiving a life sentence for the murder of Eugene TerreBlanche. (AP Photo)

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In a Dec. 12, 1999 photo, Nebraska's Charlie Rogers (33), guards Creighton's Corey Sweeney (22) during a women's basketball match in Lincoln, Neb. Rogers, who told police she was the victim of a vicious hate crime in July, 2012, was charged with making a false report Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012 and pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge. Authorities issued an arrest warrant for Rogers Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/Lincoln Journal Star, William Lauer)

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Anne Winters Carter (right) comforts her daughter, Teresa Carter, at a vigil for their grandson and son, Chavis Carter, in Memphis, Tenn., on Monday. Chavis Carter, a man police say fatally shot himself in the head while his hands were cuffed behind him in the back of an Arkansas patrol car, tested positive for anti-anxiety medication, according to an autopsy report released Monday that listed his death as a suicide.

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Assistant U.S. Attorney General Tom Perez announces a civil rights unit to be based in Birmingham, Ala., on Tuesday. The unit will be responsible for prosecutions and lawsuits. (Associated Press)

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A policeman tries to detain a masked supporter of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot inside the Turkish embassy near the court in Moscow on Aug. 17, 2012. A Moscow judge sentenced each of three members of the band to two years in prison on hooliganism charges following a trial that has drawn international outrage as an emblem of Russia's intolerance to dissent. (Associated Press)