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** FILE ** Former Penn State Vice President Gary Schultz (left) and Tim Curley (right), who is on leave as the school's athletic director, enter a district judge's office for an arraignment in Harrisburg, Pa., in November 2011. (AP Photos/Brad Bower [left] and Matt Rourke [right])
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Jurist Jacinta Gholston speaks to the media outside the court Friday May 11, 2012."This wasn't about her," juror Jacinta Gholston told reporters Friday evening May 11, 2012. "It was a case about William Balfour." The Chicago jury convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's former brother-in-law on Friday of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in what prosecutors described as an act of vengeance by a jilted husband. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart, Chicago Sun-Times)
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FILE - This March 25, 2011 file photo shows Denver Nuggets forward Chris Anderson dunking in the third quarter of an NBA basketball game against the Washington Wizards, in Denver. Douglas County sheriff's deputies have searched the home of the popular Nuggets center. Sheriff's spokesman Ron Hanavan confirmed that the search took place Thursday as part of an investigation conducted by the department's Internet Crimes Against Children unit. Andersen has not been arrested and Hanavan said no arrest warrant has been issued. (AP Photo/Chris Schneider, File)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided April 6, 2012 by the Cook County Sheriff's Department, shows William Balfour who is charged in the murders of the mother, brother and nephew of singer and actress Jennifer Hudson. A Chicago jury has convicted Hudson's former brother-in-law of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in what prosecutors described as an act of vengeance by a jilted husband. The jury convicted 31-year-old William Balfour on three-counts of first degree murder on Friday, May 11, 2012, after three days of deliberations. He faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison. (AP Photo/Cook County Sheriff's Department, File)
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In this courtroom sketch, singer and actress Jennifer Hudson testifies Monday, April 23, 2012, in Chicago at the murder trial of William Balfour, charged in the October 2008 killings of her mother, brother and nephew. Looking on is Cook County Judge Charles Burns. Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson broke down in tears Monday while testifying at the trial of the man accused of killing her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in a jealous rage four years ago. (AP Photo/Tom Gianni)
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The self-styled anti-Muslim militant Anders Behring Breivik (center) is escorted May 11, 2012, from a courtroom in Oslo by police after his trial was interrupted briefly by the brother one of his 77 victims. The brother hurled a shoe at him and yelled, "Go to hell" before being escorted from the courtroom, police and witnesses said. (Associated Press/NTB scanpix)
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** FILE ** This undated photo provided by the Hardeman County (Miss.) Sheriff's Department shows Adam Mayes. (AP Photo/Hardeman County (Miss) Sheriff's Department, File)
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A U.S. Marshal stands next to his car holding a rifle in the parking lot of a command center set up to coordinate the search for two Tennessee girls and the man accused of abducting them and killing their mother and sister on Thursday May 10, 2012, in Guntown, Miss. The hunt for Adam Mayes and the two young sisters he is accused of kidnapping has encompassed parts of at least three counties in northern Mississippi. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)
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On Thursday, a judge tossed out drunken driving charges against Randy Babbitt, who resigned as head of the FAA after news of his arrest became public. (Associated Press)
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In this Jan. 26, 1961 file photo shot by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas, a sick and hungry Baluba child is photographed at the Miabi Hospital in South Kasai, Congo. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, File)
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In this March 19, 1964 file photo, one of several shot by Associated Press photographer Horst Faas which earned him the first of two Pulitzer Prizes, a father holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armored vehicle. The child was killed as government forces pursued guerrillas into a village near the Cambodian border. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)
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Prince George's County State's Attorney Angela Alsobrooks (left) and Ebony Norris, the fiance of Maryland State Trooper Wesley Brown, speak Thursday about the sentencing of Brown's convicted killer, Cyril Williams. A Circuit Court Judge sentenced Williams to life without parole. (Andrea Noble/The Washington Times)