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National District Attorneys Association President Jim Reams is among prosecutors skeptical of sentencing-reform efforts. (Associated Press)
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Kevin Mayfield, released from prison in 2007, credits Project Empowerment for keeping him on the straight and narrow. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Kristen LaBrie talks to a court officer during a recess after she was found guilty on all four counts including attempted murder, in the death of her son, at Lawrence Superior Court in Lawrence, Ma, Tuesday, April 12, 2011. LaBrie was also convicted of child endangerment and assault and battery for failing to give her son, Jeremy Fraser, chemotherapy medications after the boy was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He died in 2009 at age 9. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)
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Kristen LaBrie looks at family and friends after is was found guilty on all four counts, including attempted murder, in the death of her son, at Lawrence Superior Court in Lawrence, Ma., Tuesday, April 12, 2011. LaBrie was also convicted of child endangerment and assault and battery for failing to give her son, Jeremy Fraser, chemotherapy medications after the boy was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He died in 2009 at age 9. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)
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Kristen LaBrie talks to a court officer after she was found guilty on all four counts including attempted murder, in the death of her son, at Lawrence Superior Court in Lawrence, Ma, Tuesday, April 12, 2011. LaBrie was also convicted of child endangerment and assault and battery for failing to give her son, Jeremy Fraser, chemotherapy medications after the boy was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He died in 2009 at age 9. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)
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Phoenix Coyotes' Ilya Bryzgalov (30), of Russia, makes a save on a shot by San Jose Sharks' Logan Couture (39) during the third period of an NHL hockey game Friday, April 8, 2011, in Glendale, Ariz. The Coyotes defeated the Sharks 4-3. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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A woman lights a candle at an entrance to the Oktyabrskaya station of Minsk subway in downtown on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Belarusian authorities said Tuesday they have identified a suspect in a subway bombing as the death toll rose to 12, with more than 200 wounded. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY BARBARA L. SALISBURY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES Rochelle Webb, former director of the Department of Employment Services, says her early dismissal was based partially on fear of what she would say in testimony.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A Capitol Police officer talks to D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray before he was arrested Monday for "impeding traffic" during a protest on Capitol Hill of the restrictions placed on the District as part of the federal budget deal. "D.C. deserves to be free," Mr. Gray said.
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A woman with her face covered by a niqab is taken away by police officers in Paris on Monday, the first day of France's ban on Islamic face veils. The law was met with a burst of defiance, as several veiled women arrived at Notre Dame Cathedral and two were detained for taking part in an unauthorized protest. France is the first country to ban the veils anywhere in public. (Associated Press)
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"It feels like he stole $1,000 from each one of us," said Town Clerk Candy Slack of Donald Hewitt, who admitted stealing town funds for his personal use while serving as the town's part-time treasurer from 1977 to 2009. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud and could face 20 years in prison. (Associated Press)
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DeMaurice Smith, who was head of the NFL Players Association before it dissolved, talks to reporters outside the federal courthouse after a hearing Wednesday, April 6, 2011, in St. Paul, Minn. At right is players attorney Jim Quinn. A group of players is asking a judge to issue a preliminary injunction on the lockout the owners imposed after talks on a new collective bargaining agreement broke off three weeks ago. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
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WHODUNIT?: Crime writer Patricia Cornwell is embroiled in a federal probe of illegal campaign contributions. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2009 file photo Hakim Muhammad, of Bloomfield, Conn., is arraigned in a courtroom at Rockville Superior Court, in Vernon, Conn. Muhammad, 22, was sentenced Friday, April 8, 2011, in Rockville Superior Court to 2-1/2 years in prison and 2-1/2 years of special parole after pleading guilty to second-degree assault and hindering prosecution. He also apologized for stabbing UConn football player Brian Parker during an October 2009 fight on the campus. (AP Photo/George Ruhe, File)
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Coach John Tillman has a veteran roster at Maryland and a chance to make a deep push in May. He was an assistant coach at Navy for 12 years and then head coach at Harvard for nearly three years. (Maryland Athletics)
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Cheryl Wills, a TV journalist and author of the book "Die Free," holds up a copy of the discharge record she found for her great-great-great-grandfather Sandy Wills, who served from 1863 to 1865 in the Union Army. Ms. Wills was on hand at the National Archives in Washington on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, as the archives announced that Civil War documents now will be made available online at Ancestry.com. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous states about incarceration in the U.S., "We need to be 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime.'" (Associated Press)
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NFL attorney David Boies answers questions after the NFL lockout hearing Wednesday in St. Paul, Minn. The federal judge overseeing the case urged the NFL owners and players to resume bargaining. (Associated Press)
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"He felt a premonition that he would be detained," said Lu Qing, wife of Ai Weiwei. (Associated Press)
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A body is brought to the surface at the mine. Supporters of President Robert Mugabe claim the bodies discovered are victims of the country's former colonial rulers when the country was known as Rhodesia, but the condition of the corpses has led others to conclude the deaths occurred more recently. (Associated Press)
