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FILE - In this June 12, 2016 file photo, law enforcement officials work at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., following a mass shooting. As many as 1,000 potential jurors in the trial of the Orlando nightclub gunman’s wife will have to answer an extensive questionnaire about how much they know about the case. That highlights how complicated it could be to find unbiased jurors in the prosecution of the only case related to the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)
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Attorneys Jose Baez, left, and Ronald Sullivan, who successfully defended former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez in a double-murder case, hold a briefing outside the state medical examiner's office, Thursday, April 20, 2017, in Boston. Baez accused Massachusetts' chief medical examiner of "illegally" holding the brain of the ex-NFL star, who was found Wednesday hanged in his prison cell. Baez said Hernandez's family had arranged for Boston University to study the former tight end's brain as part of its concussion research. (AP Photo/Collin Binkley)
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FILE - This Dec. 13, 2011, file photo, Judge Thomas Low speaks during a sentencing hearing at the 4th District Court in American Fork, Utah. A Utah judicial oversight commission representative says the number of comments about Low calling a convicted rapist a "good man" during his sentencing hearing has nearly tripled since Friday, April 14, 2017. Jennifer Yim said Monday, April 17, 2017, that she has received in total about 120 emails, phone calls and Facebook messages about Judge Thomas Low. The messages started coming in late March when Low came under scrutiny for letting Keith Robert Vallejo out of custody after a jury found him guilty of 10 counts of forcible sexual abuse and one count of object rape.(Chris Detrick/The Salt Lake Tribune, via AP, Pool, File)
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Police investigate a triple shooting in which two Laclede Gas workers were shot and killed in St. Louis on Thursday, April 20, 2017. Police say the shooter also shot and killed himself. (JB Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
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Racquel Smith, widow of former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith, arrives at the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse, Thursday, April 20, 2017, in New Orleans, with supporters, for the second day of a sentencing hearing for Cardell Hayes, who killed her husband and shot her, and was convicted of manslaughter. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Racquel Smith, center, widow of former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith, arrives at the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse, Thursday, April 20, 2017, in New Orleans, with supporters, for the second day of a sentencing hearing for Cardell Hayes, who killed her husband and shot her, and was convicted of manslaughter. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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A supporter of Cardell Hayes heckles Racquel Smith, not pictured, widow of former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith, and her supporters, as they arrive at the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse, Thursday, April 20, 2017, in New Orleans, for the second day of a sentencing hearing for Hayes, who killed her husband and shot her, and was convicted of manslaughter. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Kevin O'Neal, a passenger who was in the car with Cardell Hayes the night Hayes killed former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith, leaves the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse after a sentencing hearing for Hayes, who and was convicted of manslaughter, in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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FILE - In this undated file photo released by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations shows Tad Cummins in Tennessee. Authorities said a 15-year-old Tennessee girl who disappeared with Cummins, who was her teacher, last month has been found safe in California and the teacher has been arrested. (Tennessee Bureau of Investigations via AP, File)
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Racquel Smith, widow of former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith, arrives at the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse, Thursday, April 20, 2017, in New Orleans, with supporters, for the second day of a sentencing hearing for Cardell Hayes, who killed her husband and shot her, and was convicted of manslaughter. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Two 19-year-olds are facing hate crimes charges for allegedly setting fire to a Donald Trump campaign sign in Maryland. (The Baltimore Sun)
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This booking photo made available by the Norfolk Police, Va., shows Rayvon A. Messer on Thursday, April 20, 2017. Authorities have charged Messer in the shooting death of his 3-year-old-son. Messer is being held without bail. (Norfolk Police via AP)
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This Wednesday, April 19, 2017 booking photo released by the Calcasieu Parish (La.) Sheriff's Office shows Justin W. Gray. Gray has been jailed on charges he financially exploited a federal judge while working as her personal assistant. The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office said in a statement that Gray turned himself in Wednesday after investigators obtained a warrant to arrest him on charges of forgery and unauthorized use of a credit card. (Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the U.S. District Court in Southern California shows Judge Gonzalo Curiel. (Associated Press)
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FILE - This Friday, May 16, 2014, file photo, shows the General Motors logo at the company's world headquarters in Detroit. General Motors says it has halted operations in Venezuela after authorities seized a factory. The plant was confiscated on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, in what GM called an illegal judicial seizure of its assets. GM says its due process rights were violated and it will take legal steps to fight the seizure. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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Michael Burnside, a witness, arrives at Orleans Parish Criminal District Court for the sentencing of Cardell Hayes in the shooting death of former Saints defensive end Will Smith in New Orleans, La. Wednesday, April 19, 2017. State District Judge Camille Buras rejected numerous defense arguments for a new trial, including the claim of Burnside, a newly found witness who said he heard more than two weapons fired the night Smith was killed. (Matthew Hinton/The Advocate via AP)
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FILE - In this July 28, 2016, file photo, Khizr Khan, father of fallen Army Capt. Humayun Khan and his wife Ghazala speak during the final day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Khan, the father of a Muslim-American soldier who died in combat in Iraq on Wednesday, April 19, 2017, filed an amicus brief supporting a federal judge's decision to block President Donald Trump's revised travel ban. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Lauren Kirk-Coehlo of Davis pleaded guilty to all charges on Wednesday. They include two counts of vandalizing the Davis Islamic Center in January and causing more than $400 in damage by destroying six windows and two bicycles.
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Fresno, Calif., Police Chief Jerry Dyer glances over at a photo of victim Zackary Randalls during a news conference at the Fresno Police Department on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. The black gunman suspected of killing three white men in a racially motivated attack in Fresno was proud of what he had done and laughed many times as he explained his actions in interviews with police, authorities said Wednesday. (Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee via AP)
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Phyllis Cervantes, right, says a prayer for Tuesday's shooting victims at a memorial of candles and flowers outside Catholic Charities on Wednesday, April 19, 2017 in Fresno, Calif. The three men killed Tuesday had no known connection to each other or to the shooter, Kori Ali Muhammad, who is expected to be arraigned Friday. (Carmen George/The Fresno Bee via AP)
