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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack Johnson has pleaded not guilty to a series of charges stemming from a corruption investigation. (Associated Press)

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Shawna Forde (far left) sits at the defense table with her lawyers, Jill Thorpe and Eric Larsen, during closing arguments in her trial in Pima County Superior Court in Tucson, Ariz., on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. A jury on Monday found Forde guilty in the May 2009 killings of 29-year-old Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia, at their home in Arivaca, a desert community about 10 miles north of the Mexican border. (AP Photo/Arizona Daily Star, Mamta Popat)

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Wrangler jeans soon will cost more because of the high price of cotton, which accounts for half the production cost of jeans. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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A Pakistani police officer receives flowers and Valentine's Day cards for Mumtaz Qadri, the confessed killer of a liberal Pakistani governor, given by students during a rally outside the Adiala Jail, where Qadri's special court hearing was held on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Qadri pleaded guilty to murder, telling a judge he didn't regret gunning the politician down because he killed "an apostate," as required under his interpretation of Islamic law, lawyers said. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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Death row inmate Roy Willard Blankenship claims Georgia's stockpile of a key lethal injection drug has expired, and he's asking a judge to halt an execution he says may cause him to die in excruciating pain. (AP Photo/Georgia Department of Corrections)

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Natalya Vasilyeva, the assistant to the judge who sentenced oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, said the verdict was imposed upon the judge when it became clear that top Russian officials did not think his own ruling would be tough enough. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

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Greg Anderson, Barry Bonds' former personal baseball trainer, leaves a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 27, 2009, after appearing before U.S. District Judge Susan Illston. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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Associated Press This image provided by the FBI shows the "Geezer Bandit" robbing a bank in Goleta, Calif. The FBI has looked into whether the suspect might be wearing a mask that hides his real age.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A group of women hold a poster with a photo of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi behind bars during a protest in Milan, Italy, on Sunday. Thousands of women turned out in 200 Italian cities to denounce what they say is Mr. Berlusconi's debasing of women. Prosecutors want to try Mr. Berlusconi for allegedly paying a 17-year-old Moroccan girl for sex. Paying for prostitution with a minor is a crime in Italy. Mr. Berlusconi and the teenager have denied the allegation.

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In this Sept. 11, 2007 file photo, Nebraska quarterback Sam Keller takes a question during a news conference in Lincoln, Neb. On Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, Keller will be in Pasadena, Calif., to watch his team of lawyers urge the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold a trial judge’s decision that EA and the NCAA appear to owe the former Cornhusker and, by the extension, thousands of other former players millions of dollars for using their images in the video game. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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The 2012 federal budget is on display at the U.S. Government Printing Office at Washington on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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This image provided by the San Diego Fire and Rescue Department shows San Diego Fire Department paramedics assisting a victim at the site of a crash where a taxi cab driver plowed slowly into a crowd on a sidewalk in San Diego's busy Gaslamp District Saturday Feb. 12, 2011, injuring more than two dozen people, police said. (AP Photo/ San Diego Fire and Rescue Department, Maurice Luque)

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** FILE ** Pakistani security officials escort Raymond Allen Davis (center), a U.S. Consulate employee, to a local court in Lahore, Pakistan, on Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Hamza Ahmed, File)

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This handout photo provided by the City of Manassas Police Department on Feb. 11, 1001, shows Jose Oswaldo Alfaro. Alfaro is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and other charges are pending after attacks just blocks apart in a northern Virginia neighborhood that left three people dead and three others injured Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

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Ingmar Guandique was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Friday, Feb. 11, 2011, in the 2001 murder of Washington intern Chandra Levy. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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** FILE ** This Dec. 19, 2008, frame grab taken from surveillance video provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, shows a bank robbery suspect dubbed the "Granddad Bandit" robbing a bank in Virginia. Michael Francis Mara pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, to robbing two Virginia banks and acknowledged two dozen other heists from New York to Texas. (AP Photo/U.S. Attorney’s Office)

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President Obama meets with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Lawyers wearing masks reading "Forbidden of Expression" protest with judges in front of the Justice Palace in Nice, France, on Thursday during a national protest by judges and lawyers against criticism by French President Nicolas Sarkozy of the legal system. (Associated Press)

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Sarah May Casareto, 33, of Forest Lake, Minn., has been charged with one felony count of theft of a controlled substance. (AP Photo/Hennepin County [Minn.] Sheriff’s Office)