Law_Crime

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Former French President Jacques Chirac has been ordered to stand trial on embezzlement charges stemming from his tenure as mayor of Paris. (Associated Press)

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Mexican federal police in Mexico City line up purported members of the violent drug cartel La Familia, detained in a recent police operation, as the U.S. on Thursday announced its own operation against the gang north of the border. (Associated Press)

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Eric Harris (left) and Dylan Klebold are seen from a security camera image at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., on April 20, 1999, during their shooting rampage. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** David Letterman admits during an October 2009 broadcast of "The Late Show" to having been sexually involved with some female employees. (AP Photo/CBS)

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Mildred Muhammad of Prince George's County jotted down her thoughts of isolation and torment for years in her journals about her ex-husband, convicted D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad, which led her to publish her memoir. associated press

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An Amtrak Metroliner is bound for Washington, D.C. Amtrak currently prohibits guns anywhere on its trains. Associated press

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Associated press photographs Syrian military intelligence appears to be providing assistance to the U.N. special tribunal investigating the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri to shield Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (above) from blame.

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** FILE ** Delonte West was arrested after police stopped him for speeding. They said they found three loaded guns.

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PHOTOGRAPHS PROVIDED BY D.C. DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH REHABILITATION SERVICES The $45 million New Beginnings Development Youth Center in Laurel opened in May, replacing the trouble-plagued Oak Hill Juvenile Detention Center. It houses 60 male youths.

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** FILE ** Phillip Garrido, 58, next to his court-appointed attorney, Susan Gellman, pleaded not guilty on Friday to 29 counts including forcible abduction, rape and false imprisonment involving the 1991 abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard. (Associated Press)

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John Durham speaks to reporters in Connecticut in 2005 after the sentencing of former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland. Former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann asked a federal judge Thursday to dismiss the charges filed against him by special counsel John Durham, who is probing the Justice Department's actions in the early stages of the Trump-Russia collusion probe. (Associated Press/FILE)

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Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says a new state law granting same-sex couples marriage-like benefits is unconstitutional.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS OVERLOOKED: A wheelchair sits outside the main entrance to a nursing home in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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GETTY IMAGES Brunilda Vega (center) and Jodi Valenciano Perry (third from left) celebrate in Washington after hearing that Judge Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as the newest justice on the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday.

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President Obama made time for a 2009 beer summit with Sgt. James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates Jr. — but not for the funeral of a slain Chicago girl who'd played with her high school band at the president's 2013 inauguration.

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** FILE ** Gary McKinnon, shown in this file photo from 2009, is charged with breaking into computers belonging to NASA, the Department of Defense and several branches of the U.S. military. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Camp Justice is the site of the U.S. war-crimes tribunal compound on U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Prosecutors are moving forward with investigations and trial preparation while waiting for the completion of case reviews ordered by President Obama in January.

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A former MS-13 gang member speaks to a George Washington University Summer Scholars criminal justice and criminology class, which is held for high school students. The former gang member said he lives day by day, looking over his shoulder, due to potential MS-13 retaliation. (John Muller/Special to The Washington Times)