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Occupy DC protestors stand off with police as they block the intersection of 14th St. NW and K St. NW in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 7, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
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A woman is caught between people and a police horse as Washington D.C. Metro police clear the street and make arrests during a protest in the intersection of 14th and K Streets NW in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, December 7, 2011. Police also used horses to try to keep order in this situation. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A man is arrested along K Street NW by Washington D.C. Metro police during a protest at the intersection of 14th and K Streets NW in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, December 7, 2011. Police also used horses to try to keep order in this situation. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A man is arrested along K Street NW by Washington D.C. Metro police during a protest at the intersection of 14th and K Streets NW in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, December 7, 2011. Police also used horses to try to keep order in this situation. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Occupy DC protestors stand off with police as they block the intersection of 14th St. NW and K St. NW in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 7, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
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Occupy DC protestors stand off with police as they block the intersection of 14th St. NW and K St. NW in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 7, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
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Occupy DC protestors are arrested as they block the intersection of 14th St. NW and K St. NW in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 7, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
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A Yemeni protester wears the colors of his national flag painted on his body and an Arabic phrase that reads, "The people want the butcher to be executed," during a rally to demand the prosecution of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, on Wednesday. (Associated Press)
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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives by car with his wife, Patti, at the federal building in Chicago on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, for his sentencing hearing on 18 corruption counts, including trying to auction off President Obama's old Senate seat. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
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In this July 12, 1995, file photo, Mumia Abu-Jamal leaves Philadelphia's City Hall after a hearing. District Attorney Seth Williams announced Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, that prosecutors will no longer pursue the death penalty against the former Black Panther, meaning he will spend the rest of his life in prison for gunning down a white police officer nearly 30 years ago. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner, File) ** FILE **
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Afghans shout slogans during a funeral for a victim of Tuesday's suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
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U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said the $210 million settlement reached in a West Virginia mine explosion that killed 29 men "requires a recognition that there was criminal conduct at play." (Associated Press)
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Thomas Haynesworth, who spent 27 years behind bars, center, gestures during a press conference with Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli II, left, and Shawn Armbrust, of the Mid Atlantic Innocence Project, right, in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. Haynesworth was exonerated of two 1984 sexual assault convictions. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (Associated Press/File)
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Joseph Alon lived with his wife and daughters in Chevy Chase in 1973 before he was killed by a gunman in front of his home. (Associated Press)
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Devora Alon (above) was devastated by the 1973 death of her husband, who was shot as the couple arrived home from a dinner party. Their daughters, Rachel Alon-Margalit (ltop) and Yael Alon-Rosenschein, are still searching for answers. (Associated Press)
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Israeli military attache Joseph Alon poses with daughters Rachel (foreground), Yael (center) and Dalia outside their home in Chevy Chase, Md., in 1973, the year he mysteriously was shot to death in his driveway. (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Alon family)
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U.S. Attorney for Maryland Rod Rosensten speaks to reporters after former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson is given seven years and three months for corruption in a pay-to-play scandal, at the U.S. Courthouse in Greenbelt, Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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U.S. Attorney for Maryland Rod Rosensten speaks to reporters after former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson is given seven years and three months for corruption in a pay-to-play scandal, at the U.S. Courthouse in Greenbelt, Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson sits in his SUV outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Greenbelt after being sentenced to seven years and three months after being found guilty for corruption in a pay-to-play scandal, Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)