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FILE - In this Friday, April 14, 2017, file photo, former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez turns to look toward his fiancee Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez as he reacts to his double murder acquittal at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston. Kyle Kennedy, a jailhouse friend of Aaron Hernandez said prison officials denied the former NFL star's request for a cellmate months before he hanged himself. Kennedy's attorney, Lawrence Army, is speaking Wednesday, April 26, 2017, about how the two inmates were connected. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, Pool, File)
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Attorney Lawrence Army Jr., holds a news conference intended to clear up some of the record concerning his client Kyle Kennedy and former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, Wednesday, April 26, 2017, in Worcester, Mass. Hernandez was convicted of Odin Lloyd's 2013 murder and was serving a life sentence without parol when he hung himself in his jail cell last week. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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FILE - In this Aug. 25, 1992 file photo, from left, Antoine Miller, Henry Watson and Damian Williams stand in Superior Court in Los Angeles for arraignment on charges in connection with the riot-related beating of trucker Reginald Denny. The case was assigned to a black judge who was immediately removed by the prosecution, raising defense claims of racism. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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Fox News anchor Kelly Wright pauses during a news conference, Wednesday, April 26, 2017, in New York to discuss a lawsuit accusing the network of allowing racial discrimination. Wright and ten former and current employees of Fox News Channel filed the suit on Tuesday, saying they repeatedly complained about an executive's racist behavior but no action was taken. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Fox News anchor Kelly Wright pauses during a news conference, Wednesday, April 26, 2017, in New York to discuss a lawsuit accusing the network of allowing racial discrimination. Wright and ten former and current employees of Fox News Channel filed the suit on Tuesday, saying they repeatedly complained about an executive's racist behavior but no action was taken. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Fox News anchor Kelly Wright speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, April 26, 2017, in New York to discuss his part in a lawsuit accusing the network of allowing racial discrimination. Wright and ten former and current employees of Fox News Channel filed the suit on Tuesday, saying they repeatedly complained about an executive's racist behavior but no action was taken. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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FILE - In this an. 24, 2017, file photo provided by the Story County Sheriff's Office in Ames, Iowa shows John McPhee. McPhee, a former Iowa fire academy administrator, pleaded guilty Wednesday, April 26, 2017, to falsifying test scores that were used to improperly certify thousands of firefighters. (Story County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1993 file photo, Los Angeles police officer Sgt. Stacey Koon leaves the federal courthouse in Los Angeles after the opening session of the federal civil rights violation case against Koon and three other police officers involved in the beating of black motorist Rodney King. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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FILE - This combination of March 14, 1991 booking photos shows the four police officers indicted for brutalizing black motorist Rodney King in a videotaped attack. From left are Sgt. Stacey C. Koon, Officer Theodore J. Briseno, Officer Timothy E. Wind and Officer Laurence Powell. Two served time in prison and all four lost their careers. (LA County District Attorney via AP)
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FILE - In this Saturday, April 18, 1993 file photo, Los Angeles police officer Stacey Koon describes what is happening on the Rodney King beating video to host Steve Dunleavy at a hotel in Valencia, Calif., during the taping of the syndicated television show "A Current Affair." Koon was interviewed shortly after he was found guilty in the Rodney King civil rights trial. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Harlem Lewis. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, upheld the conviction and death sentence of Lewis for the Christmas Eve 2012 slayings of Houston-area police officer Jimmy Norman, and a bystander Terry Taylor, who were gunned down during a traffic stop struggle. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Kimberly Cargill. Texas' highest criminal court has refused an appeal from Cargill, on death row for the slaying seven years ago of her developmentally disabled babysitter. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, rejected 15 claims raised by 50-year-old Cargill, who was convicted in Smith County in 2012 of causing the asphyxiation of 39-year-old Cherry Walker. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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President Trump and his top aides have lashed out at the federal court that blocked his anti-sanctuary city executive order, with the president calling the ruling “ridiculous” and his press secretary saying sanctuaries like San Francisco have “the blood of dead Americans on their hands.” Mr. Trump vowed Wednesday to fight the case all the way to the Supreme Court, dismissing the new ruling as the latest errant decision from the country’s most liberal judicial circuit. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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A HM Customs and Revenue officer at West Ham United Football Club in London, Wednesday April 26, 2017. British authorities arrested several men working in professional soccer on suspicion of tax fraud on Wednesday in a far-reaching case that saw raids in England and France. Premier League club West Ham said it was "cooperating" with the tax agency "to assist their enquiries." (Yui Mok/PA via AP)
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FILE - In this April 8, 2017 file photo, shows a general view of London Stadium in London. British authorities arrested several men working in professional soccer on suspicion of tax fraud on Wednesday April 26, 2017, in a far-reaching case that saw raids in England and France. Premier League club West Ham said it was "cooperating" with the tax agency "to assist their enquiries." (John Walton/PA via AP, File)
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FILE- In this July 24, 2008 file photo, former detective Goncalo Amaral in the Madeleine McCann case poses next to her photo with his book, whose title translates as "The Truth in the Lies", during its launch in Lisbon. British detectives say they are still pursuing "critical" leads in the case of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, 10 years after the girl — then three years old — vanished from a vacation home in Portugal. Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said Wednesday, April 26, 2017 there are "significant investigative avenues ... of great interest" to detectives both in Britain and in Portugal. (AP Photo/Joao Henriques, file)
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FILE - In this file photo dated March 24, 2017, Wales' Neil Taylor is sent off for a red card tackle which broke the right leg of Ireland captain Seamus Coleman during the Republic of Ireland v Wales World Cup qualifier. FIFA announced Wednesday April 26, 2017, that Taylor is banned for two World Cup qualifying games for the red-card tackle that broke the leg of an Ireland opponent. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)
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FILE - In this April 3, 2017, file photo, Bill Cosby departs after a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Evin Cosby writes in an opinion piece for the National Newspaper Publishers Association published Wednesday, April 26, 2017, that her father “is not abusive, violent or a rapist.” (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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Michigan State defensive end Auston Robertson stands on the field during the Spring Game at Spartan Stadium, Saturday, April 1, 2017 in East Lansing, Mich. The former defensive end has been jailed in Indiana on a third-degree criminal sexual conduct charge filed in Michigan. (Kirthmon F. Dozier/Detroit Free Press via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2015 file photo, police officers storm the kosher grocery store where a gunman held several hostages, in Paris, Friday Jan. 9, 2015. The Paris prosecutors' office i Wednesday April 26, 2017 s announcing 10 arrests in an investigation of suspected suppliers of weapons to one of three attackers who killed 17 people at Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosker store in January 2015. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)