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John Lopes protests in Oakland, Calif., following an involuntary manslaughter verdict in Johannes Mehserle's trial on Thursday, July 8, 2010. A former transit police officer, Mehserle shot and killed unarmed black man Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Wanda Johnson, mother of shooting victim Oscar Grant, prays for justice outside the Los Angeles Criminal Courts building after a jury found former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle guilty of involuntary manslaughter Thursday, July 8, 2010, in downtown Los Angeles. Mehserle, a former BART police officer, shot and killed Oscar Grant while he laid on his stomach on an Oakland, Calif. train platform. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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A dumpster burns during protesting in Oakland, Calif., following an involuntary manslaughter verdict in Johannes Mehserle's trial on Thursday, July 8, 2010. A former transit police officer, Mehserle shot and killed unarmed black man Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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A man celebrates as dumpsters burn in Oakland, Calif., following an involuntary manslaughter verdict in Johannes Mehserle's trial on Thursday, July 8, 2010. A former transit police officer, Mehserle shot and killed unarmed black man Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Police hold a demonstrator during a protest in Oakland, Calif., after a guilty verdict for Johannes Mehserle, Thursday, July 8, 2010. Former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle was found guilty in Los Angeles for shooting unarmed black man Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009 at a BART station in Oakland. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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A demonstrator takes a mannequin after breaking the window at a downtown Sears store during a protest in Oakland, Calif., after a guilty verdict for Johannes Mehserle, Thursday, July 8, 2010. Former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle was found guilty in Los Angeles for shooting unarmed black man Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009 at a BART station in Oakland. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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A protester breaks a window at Sears store during a demonstration in Oakland, Calif., after a guilty verdict for Johannes Mehserle, Thursday, July 8, 2010. Former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle was found guilty in Los Angeles for shooting unarmed black man Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009 at a BART station in Oakland. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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Unidentified people loot a Foot Locker store in Oakland, Calif., following an involuntary manslaughter verdict in Johannes Mehserle's trial on Thursday, July 8, 2010. A white former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer, Mehserle was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Los Angeles for shooting unarmed black man Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009 at a BART station in Oakland. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Oakland Police officers hold a demonstrator in Oakland, Calif., after a guilty verdict for Johannes Mehserle, Thursday, July 8, 2010. Former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle was found guilty in Los Angeles for shooting unarmed black man Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009 at a BART station in Oakland. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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A demonstrator carries a lamp after the window was broken at Sears during a protest in Oakland, Calif., after a guilty verdict for Johannes Mehserle, Thursday, July 8, 2010. Former San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle was found guilty of involluntary manslaughter in Los Angeles for shooting unarmed black man Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009 at a BART station in Oakland. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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This courtroom sketch shows, bottom row from right, Richard Murphy, Cynthia Murphy, Donald Howard Heathfield, Tracey Lee Ann Foley, Michael Zottoli, top row from right, Patricia Mills, Juan Lazaro, Vicky Pelaez, Anna Chapman, and Mikhail Semenko during their arraignment in in Manhattan federal court Thursday, July 8, 2010 in New York. A spy swap between the U.S. and Russia is unfolding as 10 people accused of spying in suburban America have pleaded guilty to conspiracy and have been ordered deported to Russia in exchange for the release of four Russian spies. (AP Photo/Aggie Kenny)
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A barbed wire is seen over a fence of the Lefortovo prison in Moscow, Thursday, July 8, 2010. Riot police on Thursday secured the perimeter of the prison, and convoy of armored vehicles arrived in the morning at the prison, thought to be the central gathering point for people convicted of spying for the West, including nuclear researcher Igor Sutyagin, serving a 14-year sentence for spying for the United States. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)(AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
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An officer of Russia's Federal Service for the Execution of Penal Sentences (FSIN) special forces walks near an armored vehicle before leaving Moscow's Lefortovo prison, where Igor Sutyagin, an arms researcher convicted of spying for the West, was earlier reportedly transferred, Thursday, July 8, 2010. A lawyer for Sutyagin says he reportedly has been flown to Vienna in what appeared to be the first step of a Russia-U.S. spy swap.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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This undated file image taken from the Russian social networking website "Odnoklassniki", or Classmates, shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing Monday, June 28, 2010 in New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. The caption on Odnoklassniki reads "Russia, Moscow. London, Stone age." (AP Photo, File)
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In this undated file photo, Peruvian journalist Vicky Pelaez is seen on assignment in Lima, Peru. Pelaez and her husband Juan Lazaro were among 10 suspects arrested in a sweep in the United States on June 27 as part of an alleged Russian spy ring and charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. Attorney General, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison upon conviction. (AP Photo/Diario La Republica, File)
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This undated file photo obtained by The Associated Press shows Cynthia Murphy of Montclair, N.J. Murphy is one of 10 people arrested -- who all later pleaded guilty -- for being members of a Russian spy ring operating under deep cover in America's suburbs. (AP Photo, File)
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** FILE ** In this June 15, 2010 file photo, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks in Phoenix. Donations to a special fund that Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer established to help pay for the state's legal defense of its immigration enforcement law now total roughly $500,000. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File )
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In this March 9, 2010, file photo, Gen. James N. Mattis testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he wants Gen. Mattis to take over U.S. Central Command, replacing Gen. David Petraeus. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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Gen. David Petraeus, left, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates look on as President Obama announces that Gen. Petraeus will replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top commander in Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 23, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. On Thursday, July 8, 2010, Mr. Gates said Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis will replace Gen. Petraeus at the U.S. Central Command. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)