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File - British author J K Rowling arrives to launch her latest book called 'The Tales of Beedle the Bard' at a children's tea party in Edinburgh, Scotland, in this Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008 file photo. A British judge refused to dismiss a plagiarism lawsuit against "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling on Thursday Oct. 14 2010, saying claims that the best-selling author stole ideas from an obscure fantasy book deserved to be considered at a proper hearing. (AP Photo, file)
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A bust of Adolf Hitler is pictured in front of a portrait of Hitler during a preview for the exhebition 'Hitler and the Germans - nation and crime' in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. The exhibition runs from Oct. 15, 2010 until Feb. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
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FILE- In this Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005 file photo, former curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum in California Marion True is escorted by an unidentified lawyer as she leaves a Rome courtroom. A Rome judge on Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010, declared an end to the six-year-old trial of a former J. Paul Getty Museum antiquities curator Marion True, a case that followed with concern by museums worldwide, because the statute of limitations had expired, defense lawyers said. The case against True involved about 35 artifacts acquired by the museum between 1986 and the late 1990s, including bronze Etruscan pieces, frescoes and painted Greek vessels. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)
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Courtroom sketches of John Gotti, as well as a book by artist Marilyn Church, are on display in her studio, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010, in New York. Church has been a courtroom artist in the New York area for more than 30 years. She's sketched portraits of Bernard Madoff, Martha Stewart, Woody Allen, John Gotti and others. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Liverpool's soccer club chairman Martin Broughton, left, and Liverpool's soccer club commercial director Ian Ayre, center, leave the High Court in London, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2010. A British judge ruled against Liverpool's owners Wednesday in a decision that brings the debt-ridden Premier League club a step closer to being sold to the owners of the Boston Red Sox. High Court Judge Christopher Floyd ruled that American co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett Jr. do not have the power to oust the boardroom rivals who sanctioned the sale.(AP Photo/Lennart Preiss)
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PROMISE CUT SHORT: Jury selection begins Monday in the case of Chandra Levy. The intern's remains were located in Rock Creek Park in 2001.
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D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (second from right); Joseph Persichini Jr., assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington field office (right); Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier; U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor (second from left) and Detective Todd Williams attend a press conference on March 3, 2009, at which it was announced that an arrest warrant had been issued in the Levy case. (The Washington Times)
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Robert Levy weeps as he and his wife, Susan, remember their missing daughter, Chandra, during an interview July 13, 2001, at their home in Modesto, Calif. A police investigation was active and a grand jury was examining the case. (Associated Press)
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Ingmar Guandique, who is accused of killing Chandra Levy, is seen being taken by police from the Violent Crimes Unit in D.C. on April 22, 2009. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Salvadoran illegal immigrant Ingmar Guandique is set to stand trial for first-degree murder in Miss Levy's case.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS UNDER SCRUTINY: Thomas E. Donilon worked as a registered lobbyist for Fannie Mae from 1999 to 2005.
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In this photo from Oct. 6, 2010, Tiffany Hartley (left) and family members lay a wreath near the site where her husband, David Hartley, was shot last month on Falcon Lake in Zapata, Texas. U.S. and Mexican authorities said Tuesday a Mexican state police commander investigating the Hartley's reported shooting and disappearance has been killed. (Associated Press)
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John Galligan (left), the defense attorney for Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, leaves the U.S. Magistrate court where an Article 32 hearing for Maj. Hasan was being held on Tuesday in Fort Hood, Texas. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Members of the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department dismantle a marijuana garden in a remote area of El Dorado County, Calif., in August 2009. Proponents of Proposition 19, the ballot measure to legalize pot, have framed the measure as a way for the struggling state and its cities to raise badly needed funds. (AP Photo/Sacramento Bee, Randall Benton, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Zahra Clare Baker, a 10-year-old North Carolina hearing-impaired girl with a prosthetic leg who is missing. The girl was last seen by her stepmother at 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. A fire was reported in the Bakers' backyard about 5 a.m.
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Military police check a vehicle outside the U.S. Magistrate court where an Article 32 hearing for Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is scheduled to be held, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan, 40, is charged with premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder in a Nov. 5 attack , which killed 13 people and wounded 32 others in a processing center where soldiers were making final preparations to deploy. The Article 32 hearing will determine whether there is enough evidence to put the Army psychiatrist on trial. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Members of the media check in for an Article 32 hearing for Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan, 40, is charged with premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder in a Nov. 5 attack , which killed 13 people and wounded 32 others in a processing center where soldiers were making final preparations to deploy. The Article 32 hearing will determine whether there is enough evidence to put the Army psychiatrist on trial. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A television news vehicle undergoes a security check outside the U.S. Magistrate court where an Article 32 hearing for Maj. Nidal Hasan begins Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan, 40, is charged with premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder in a Nov. 5 attack , which killed 13 people and wounded 32 others in a processing center where soldiers were making final preparations to deploy. The Article 32 hearing will determine whether there is enough evidence to put the Army psychiatrist on trial. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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An unidentified man enters a security area at the U.S. Magistrate court where an Article 32 hearing for Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is scheduled to be held, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan, 40, is charged with premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder in a Nov. 5 attack , which killed 13 people and wounded 32 others in a processing center where soldiers were making final preparations to deploy. The Article 32 hearing will determine whether there is enough evidence to put the Army psychiatrist on trial. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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An unidentified man is checked by military personnel behind a security fence at the U.S. Magistrate court where an Article 32 hearing for Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is scheduled to be held, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010, in Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan, 40, is charged with premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder in a Nov. 5 attack , which killed 13 people and wounded 32 others in a processing center where soldiers were making final preparations to deploy. The Article 32 hearing will determine whether there is enough evidence to put the Army psychiatrist on trial. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
