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Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi awaits the start of his trial at the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick, N.J., on Friday, March 2, 2012. (AP Photo/The Star-Ledger, John Munson, Pool)

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Jane and Joe Clementi, Tyler Clementi's parents, wait for the start of Dharun Ravi's trial at the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick, N.J., on Friday, March 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Home News Tribune, Mark R. Sullivan, Pool)

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**FILE** A worker scoops up a layer of radiation-contaminated soil and ice in the garden of a private home in Fukushima, Japan, on Feb. 21, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Protesters attend prayers in Sanaa, Yemen, on Friday, March 2, 2012, during a rally demanding the trial of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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An Afghan refugee girl reacts March 4, 2012, after another child stole her food voucher while she was queuing in front a truck organized by the World Food Program in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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A girl attending mass at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church sits in a pew in front of clothing and supplies that have been collected to aid victims of a tornado in Henryville, Ind., Sunday, March 4, 2012. The church was in the path of a tornado that destroyed much of the town. Three people were killed in Southern Indiana by Tornados on Friday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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Children attend the funeral of three Free Syrian Army fighters on Saturday, March 3, 2012, in a park converted to a cemetery in Idlib, Syria. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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In this image made from Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012, video provided by C-SPAN, Sandra Fluke, a third-year Georgetown University law student, testifies to Congress in Washington. Limbaugh drew fire Friday, March 2, 2012, from many directions for his depiction of Fluke as a "slut" because she testified before Congress about the need for contraceptive coverage. (AP Photo/C-SPAN)

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FILE - In this April 21, 2010 photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, fire boat response crews spray water on the burning remnants of BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig. The gargantuan legal bill for the 2010 catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is coming due for BP as a federal trial opens Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 to determine the company’s liability for the blowout of its Macondo well. On the cusp of trial, phalanxes of lawyers, company officials and state officials spent the final hours in high-stakes settlement talks that law experts believed could still yield a deal right before the courtroom doors open Monday morning. (AP Photo/US Coast Guard, File)

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This photo taken Thursday, March 1, 2012, shows Sara Drescher, manager at 5th Ward Pub in the Walker's Point neighborhood in Milwaukee, where a marketing company is organizing a walking tour of bars where serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer hunted his victims. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)

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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley holds out a cell phone to take a picture after signing the Civil Marriage Protection Act into law at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday, March 1, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Mark Mihelcic of Annapolis, Md., talks to his son Solomon, 5, about the importance of the Civil Marriage Protection Act, which he and Solomon came to the State House to see signed into law on Thursday, March 1, 2012. Mihelcic says he is not gay, but he believes this act protects an important civil liberty. He has a good friend who was born and raised in Maryland but is now living in Arizona, and he says that friend would like to come back to Maryland now so that he and his partner can get married. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley moves out to the crowd to hand out pens after signing the Civil Marriage Protection Act into law at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday, March 1, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Supporters of the Civil Marriage Protection Act wave to Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley after he and Speaker of the House Michael Busch, right, signed the act into law at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday, March 1, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, Senate President Mike Miller and Speaker of the House Michael Busch sign the Civil Marriage Protection Act into law at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday, March 1, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Inam, a 15-year-old drug addict, gang leader and ex-con with police officers on his payroll, sheds a tear when talking about his recent AIDS diagnosis.

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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, Senate President Mike Miller and Speaker of the House Michael Busch sign the Civil Marriage Protection Act into law at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Md., on Thursday, March 1, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Seventeen-year-old T.J. Lane is led from juvenile court by sheriff's deputies in Chardon, Ohio, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, after his arraignment in the shooting a day earlier of five high school students, three of whom died. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

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Job seekers attend a National Career Fair in New York on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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Maryland midfielder Michael Shakespeare is enjoying a solid senior season after working though a coaching change and battling Lyme disease earlier in his career. (University of Maryland Athletics)