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Hope Waters, left, her brother Jeremiah, center rear, and their mother Yulise, center right, light candles with Linda Abrasion Evans, right, during a candle light vigil for Jordan Edwards in Balch Springs, Texas, Thursday, May 4, 2017. The prosecutor's office investigating the death of a black teenager who was shot by a Dallas-area police officer had once filed a complaint over that officer's aggressive behavior, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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A couple of hundred supporters stand holding lit candles as they listen to comments from speakers during a vigil for Jordan Edwards in Balch Springs, Texas, Thursday, May 4, 2017. The prosecutor's office investigating the death of the black teenager who was shot by a Dallas-area police officer had once filed a complaint over that officer's aggressive behavior, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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A few hundred supporters stand holding lit candles as they listen to comments from speakers during a vigil for Jordan Edwards in Balch Springs, Texas, Thursday, May 4, 2017. The prosecutor's office investigating the death of the black teenager who was shot by a Dallas-area police officer had once filed a complaint over that officer's aggressive behavior, according to records obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Salt Lake County Jail, in Ohio, shows Cody Jackson. Jackson, who authorities say was on an electronic monitor in an abduction case when he had a 14-year-old girl dropped off at his home by taxi, and held her captive for months and raped her in 2015 is scheduled to change his plea in federal court in Cincinnati. Court records show 21-year-old Jackson is set for a change of plea hearing in U.S. District Court on Friday, May 5, 2017. (Salt Lake County Jail via AP, File)
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Democratic Rep. Mark Cardenas, standing, argues for the deletion of a provision in the Arizona budget package that strips cash from Maricopa County Sheriff's office in Phoenix, Ariz., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. The state Legislature planned to work as long as necessary to pass the $9.8 billion plan. (AP Photo/ Bob Christie)
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Republican Rep. Anthony Kern argues in support of a provision in the Arizona budget package that strips cash from Maricopa County Sheriff's office in Phoenix, Ariz., on Thursday, May 4, 2017. The state legislature planned to work in Friday if necessary to pass the $9.8 billion plan (AP Photo/ Bob Christie)
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With more than 100 federal judicial vacancies, President Trump has the chance to influence the courts. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Chicago Cubs' Matt Szczur, right, celebrates with teammates after the Cubs defeated Philadelphia Phillies 5-4 in a baseball game Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Following attorney Terri Mascherin, left, Adam Gray gives the peace sign as he enters the room for a press conference Thursday, May 4, 2017. Gray who was sent to prison after barely turning 14, was released from an Illinois prison Wednesday after Cook County prosecutors recently decided to dismiss the charges against him. They said fire science advancements raised too many questions about his conviction. (Nancy Stone//Chicago Tribune via AP)
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Adam Gray, who was sent to prison after barely turning 14, was released Wednesday, and holds a press conference at Jenner & Block. Thursday May 4, 2017 in Chicago. Gray was released from an Illinois prison Wednesday after Cook County prosecutors recently decided to dismiss the charges against him. They said fire science advancements raised too many questions about his conviction. (Nancy Stone//Chicago Tribune via AP)
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Adam Gray, who was sent to prison after barely turning 14, was released and holds a press conference at Jenner & Block. Thursday May 4, 2017 in Chicago. At left is attorney Terri Mascherin, a partner at Jenner & Block. Gray was released from an Illinois prison Wednesday after Cook County prosecutors recently decided to dismiss the charges against him. They said fire science advancements raised too many questions about his conviction. (Nancy Stone//Chicago Tribune via AP)
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FILE - In this May 1, 2017, file photo, officials investigate after a fatal stabbing attack at the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas. An arrest affidavit said the University of Texas student accused of stabbing multiple students, one fatally, told police he didn't remember attacking anyone. Kendrex J. White, who authorities have said suffered from mental health troubles, was charged with murder in Monday's campus attack. He remained in jail Thursday, May 4, 2017, on $1 million bond. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Austin Police Department shows Kendrex J. White. An arrest affidavit said White, the University of Texas student accused of stabbing multiple students, one fatally, told police he didn't remember attacking anyone. White, who authorities have said suffered from mental health troubles, was charged with murder in Monday's campus attack. He remained in jail Thursday, May 4, 2017, on $1 million bond. (Austin Police Department via AP, File)
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FILE - In this April 14, 2017, file pool photo, former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez turns to look in the direction of the jury as he reacts to his double murder acquittal after the sixth day of jury deliberations at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. An investigative report, released Thursday, May 4, 2017, on the suicide of Hernandez has confirmed that he wrote a reference to a biblical passage in ink on his forehead and in blood on the wall of his prison cell. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, Pool)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2017 file photo provided by U.S. law enforcement, authorities escort Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, center, from a plane to a waiting caravan of SUVs at Long Island MacArthur Airport, in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan ruled Thursday, May 4, 2017, that Guzman needs to stay in solitary confinement at a New York City lockup to keep him from trying to control his drug-trafficking empire from behind bars. Cogan rejected a request by Guzman’s defense team to order him released from an ultrahigh-security wing of a jail in lower Manhattan and be allowed in the general inmate population and receive visitors. (U.S. law enforcement via AP, File)
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This undated family photo provided by Edwards family attorney Lee Merritt shows Jordan Edwards, left, posing for a photo with his father, Odell Edwards. The family of the black teenager shot and killed by a white police officer while riding in a vehicle leaving a party wants criminal charges filed against the officer, who was fired for violating department policies during the shooting. Balch Springs police Officer Roy Oliver was fired three days after 15-year-old Jordan Edwards' death. (Courtesy of Lee Merritt/Edwards family via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 photo, the town's business district is reflected in the Hampton County Sheriff's office window in Estill, S.C. What actually happened at Estill Middle School is unclear. Law enforcement officials told AP that no students reported being raped or forced into sex. But a grandmother of two of the girls who said they were forced by two classmates to perform oral sex, there is no doubt that something terrible happened. She cannot forgive what she sees as a failure to pursue the case; she dismisses suggestions that the evidence was too flimsy. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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FILE- In this May 2, 2017, file photo, Maine Gov. Paul LePage, left, testifies during a House Natural Resources subcommittee oversight hearing on Antiquities Act. on Capitol Hill in Washington. LePage’s administration has paid more than $385,000 since 2014 to a couple of private law firms representing him in court when the Democratic attorney general declined to represent him or when he requested private lawyers, according to a state-maintained database of government finances reviewed by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Roseville Police Department on Roseville, Mich., shows Robert Laughton, who has been charged with two counts of owning a dangerous animal causing serious injury after his pit bull mauled his mother and her boyfriend on Sunday, May 2, 2017. (Roseville Police Department via AP)
