Law_Crime

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Rep. David Wu faces pressure Monday after Rep. Nancy Pelosi called for an ethics investigation over an 18-year-old woman's claim of an "unwanted sexual encounter" with him. A report stated that a woman accused him in a voice mail left in his Portland office. (Associated Press)

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Rep. David Wu faces pressure Monday after Rep. Nancy Pelosi called for an ethics investigation over an 18-year-old woman's claim of an "unwanted sexual encounter" with him. A report stated that a woman accused him in a voice mail left in his Portland office. (Associated Press)

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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. greets Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday during for the announcement of the Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are assisted by law-enforcement officials to board a San Angelo Independent School District bus that is being used to relocate them from Eldorado, Texas, to San Angelo, Texas.

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Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs arrives at the Tom Green County Courthouse on Monday in San Angelo, Texas, where jury selection is scheduled to begin. Mr. Jeffs is accused of sexual assaulting two girls, one younger than 17 and one younger than 14. The charges against him include aggravated sexual assault of a child, which is punishable by up to 99 years to life in prison.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Admitted recruiting-station shooter Abdulhakim Muhammad is escorted in to the Pulaski County Courthouse in Little Rock, Ark., on Friday. His sentence Monday guarantees he will die in jail.

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Attorneys for Kody Brown and his wives (from left) Janelle, Christine, Meri and Robyn say Utah's anti-polygamy laws trample on "the right of consenting adults to create a family environment of their choosing." Their argument is similar to many gay-marriage lawsuits. (TLC via Associated Press)

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In this undated photo provided by ABC News, Robin Roberts (right) talks to Nafissatou Diallo, the alleged victim in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn assault case. (Associated Press/ABC News)

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** FILE ** Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner speaks at the Financial Stability Council meeting on the one-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Monday, July 18, 2011, at the Treasury Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio is followed by reporters after a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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FILE - In this May 15, 2011 photo, Aaron Boogaard, left, breaks down while speaking about his brother Derek Boogaard during a public memorial service at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., for Derek, who was found dead in his Minneapolis apartment a few days earlier. Aaron Boogaard has been arrested on suspicion of possessing illegal prescription pills on the night his brother died. Online records showed Aaron Boogaard was arrested Wednesday, July 20, 2011, on a narcotics charge. He was held without bail in the Hennepin County Jail in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Star Tribune, Renee Jones Schneider, File)

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Richard Steele, 4, from Riverside, Ca. cools off in a sprinkler near the Washington Monument in Northwest Washington, D.C. on Thursday, July 21, 2011. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Demonstrators protesting Alabama's new law against illegal immigration march through Linn Park in Birmingham, Ala., on June 25, 2011. (Associated Press/The Birmingham News)

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Gabriel Carvajal of Cali, Colombia, dips his head into a sprinkler while 4-year-old Emmanuel Contreas of Boston rubs his head in Washington on Wednesday. "The heat is never as bad as this where I live in Colombia," Mr. Carvajal said. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Photographs by Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times Ronald Wallen, of Indio, Calif., displays a photo of his deceased partner at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. Mr. Wallen testified that he was denied federal benefits after his partner's death because of the Defense of Marriage Act.

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** FILE ** Two men illegally cross the border fence separating Nogales, Ariz., and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, on July 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

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Abdulhakim Muhammad is escorted from a courtroom at the Pulaski County Courthouse in Little Rock, Ark., on Monday, July 18, 2011, during a break in jury selection for his trial in the 2009 shooting death of an Army recruiter and the wounding of another soldier. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)