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Ursula Ward, the mother of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd, becomes emotional as she speaks about her son during a media availability at her attorney's office Friday, April 21, 2017, in Boston. Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was convicted of Lloyd's 2013 murder and was serving a life sentence without parol when he hung himself in his jail cell early Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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Christopher Gularte, Fresno Police chief of homicide, makes a brief statement to the press outside Fresno County Superior Court prior to a court appearance by shooting-spree suspect Kori Ali Muhammad, on Friday, April 21, 2017, in Fresno, Calif. (Craig Kohlruss /The Fresno Bee via AP)
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Deputy District Attorney Brian Hutchins, second from left, speaks to bailiffs outside Fresno County Superior Court prior to a court appearance by shooting-spree suspect Kori Ali Muhammad, on Friday, April 21, 2017, in Fresno, Calif. (Craig Kohlruss /The Fresno Bee via AP)
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Fresno County Superior Court judge W. Kent Hamlin presides over the courtroom during an appearance by shooting-spree suspect Kori Ali Muhammad, on Friday, April 21, 2017. (Craig Kohlruss /The Fresno Bee via AP)
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Attorney Eric Christensen looks toward his client Kori Ali Muhammad, as he makes a loud outburst in the courtroom during his first court appearance in Fresno County Superior Court, on Friday, April 21, 2017, in Fresno, Calif. Muhammad is the suspect in Tuesday's shooting-spree and is also charged with killing in an unarmed security guard at a Motel 6. The judge ruled against the press making photographs of the defendant in prison attire. (Craig Kohlruss /The Fresno Bee via AP)
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Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, right, speaks, as Attorney General Sessions listens after the pair toured the ports of entry in El Paso, Texas and met with Department of Justice and DHS personnel, Thursday, April 20, 2017. (Ruben R. Ramierz/The El Paso Times via AP)
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Attorney General Sessions speaks after he and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly toured the ports of entry and met with Department of Justice and DHS personnel in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, April 20, 2017. (Ruben R. Ramirez/The El Paso Times via AP)
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions, right, speaks as Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly listens after the pair toured the ports of entry and met with Department of Justice and DHS personnel in El Paso, Texas, Thursday, April 20, 2017. (Ruben R. Ramirez/The El Paso Times via AP)
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Defense Attorney Miles Feinstein listens as Defendant Kristopher Dohm, right, makes a statement for leniency during his sentencing in state Superior Court in Newton, NJ., Friday, April 21, 2017. Feinstein, who sparked a nationwide search when he fled the state with his two young sons, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. (Warren Westura/The New Jersey Herald via AP, Pool)
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FILE - In this April 18, 2017, file photo, FBI Director James Comey, left, is seen at the Justice Department in Washington. The House intelligence committee has asked top law enforcement and intelligence officials to testify in open and closed hearings next week about Russian activities during the election. The committee said Friday, April 21, 2017, that it had sent letters requesting Comey and Adm. Mike Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency, to appear at a closed hearing. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2017 file photo, National Security Agency and Cyber Command chief Adm. Michael Rogers testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House intelligence committee has asked top law enforcement and intelligence officials to testify in open and closed hearings next week about Russian activities during the election. The committee said Friday, April 21, 2017, that it had sent letters requesting Rogers and FBI Director James Comey to appear at a closed hearing. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Police seal off the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, after a fatal shooting in which a police officer was killed along with an attacker, Thursday, April 20, 2017. An attacker with an automatic weapon opened fire on police on Paris' iconic Champs-Elysees Thursday night, killing one officer and seriously wounding two others before police shot and killed him. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017 file photo, a woman holds a sign at a rally outside of City Hall in San Francisco. The Trump administration is moving beyond rhetoric in its effort to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. The Justice Department is forcing nine communities to prove they are complying with an immigration law to continue receiving coveted law enforcement grant money. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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In this April 1, 2017 photo, Antonia Catalan drives her SUV in the town of Redland, Fla., to pick up a migrant worker who is in the country illegally. As a U.S. citizen with a driver's license, Catalan offers free rides to immigrants in the country illegally and without driver's licenses, so they can avoid arrest as fear spreads over President Donald Trump's directives to expand immigration enforcement. (AP Photo/Adriana Gomez)
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FILE - In this April 18, 2007, file photo, defense attorney Steve Farese Sr., speaks in Selmer, Tenn., in the trial of Mary Winkler, who was eventually convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the March 2006 shooting death of her preacher husband, Matthew Winkler. Farese is being criticized for telling a Tennessee jury that women are “especially good” at lying “because they’re the weaker sex.” The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports Farese made the comments during closing arguments of the trial of Mark Giannini, a wealthy businessman accused of raping a woman. Farese maintains that the sex was consensual. He told the Commercial Appeal that his job “is not to care if anybody gets offended." (AP Photo/Russell Ingle, File)
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New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton, top left, leaves the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse after a sentencing hearing for Cardell Hayes, who killed former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith and was convicted of manslaughter, in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Racquel Smith, widow of former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith, leaves the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse with supporters, after a sentencing hearing for Cardell Hayes, who killed her husband and shot her, and was convicted of manslaughter in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Forensic experts collect evidences from the car belonging to an attacker who killed a police officer on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, Friday, April 21, 2017. An attacker with an automatic weapon opened fire on police on Paris' iconic Champs-Elysees Thursday night, killing one officer and seriously wounding two others before police shot and killed him. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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The car belonging to an attacker is towed away from the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, after a fatal shooting in which a police officer was killed along with the attacker, Friday, April 21, 2017. An attacker with an automatic weapon opened fire on police on Paris' iconic Champs-Elysees Thursday night, killing one officer and seriously wounding two others before police shot and killed him. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, right, states that he will not pardon Ivan Teleguz, who is on death row on a murder for hire conviction, but will commute his sentence from the death penalty to life without parole, during a press conference at the State Capitol in Richmond, Va., Thursday, April 20, 2017. At left is Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security Brian J. Moran. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)