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Law enforcement officers stand at attention as the casket of Harris County assistant chief deputy constable Clint Greenwood leaves the Second Baptist Church on Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Houston. Greenwood was killed Monday by a gunman who stepped out from behind a dumpster as Greenwood arrived for work at a county courthouse east of Houston. The gunman is still on the run. (Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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In this photo taken on late Wednesday, April 5, 2017 and made available Thursday, April 6, a World Health Organization expert leaves after they had taken part in an autopsy conducted in a hospital in Adana, Turkey. Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said autopsy results show Syrians were subjected to chemical weapons attack in Idlib, Syria, on Tuesday. (IHA via AP)
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Assistant district attorney Patrick Haggan, center, makes closing arguments in the double murder trial for former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez as images of murder victims Safiro Furtado, top left, and Daniel de Abreu, top right, are projected on a screen at Suffolk Superior Court, Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Boston. Hernandez is on trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL player is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)
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Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, top right, looks toward defense attorney Ronald Sullivan, front, during his double murder trial at Suffolk Superior Court, Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Boston. Hernandez is on trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL player is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)
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Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, center, is seated in the gallery during closing arguments in the double murder trial for former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez at Suffolk Superior Court, Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Boston. Hernandez is on trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL player is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)
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Assistant district attorney Patrick Haggan makes closing arguments as images showing tattoos belonging to former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez are displayed on a screen during Hernandez's double murder trial at Suffolk Superior Court, Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Boston. Hernandez is on trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL player is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)
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New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is flanked by advocates as she talks about opioid and heroin overdoses in New Mexico during a bill signing ceremony at a substance abuse treatment center in Albuquerque, N.M., on Thursday, April 6, 2017. Among other things, the bill signed by Martinez requires all state and local law enforcement officers to be equipped with an overdose antidote kit. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez holds signed legislation that expands access to the overdose antidote naloxone during a ceremony at a substance abuse treatment center for youth in Albuquerque, N.M., on Thursday, April 6, 2017. With the signing, New Mexico becomes the first state to require all state and local law enforcement officers to be equipped with naloxone. The measure also requires treatment clinics to educate their patients and provide two doses of naloxone and a prescription for the overdose-reversal drug. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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FILE- In this May 28, 2012, file photo, a photograph of Etan Patz hangs on an angel figurine, which is part of a makeshift memorial in the SoHo neighborhood of New York. A New York judge on Thursday, April 6, 2017, denied a motion to throw out the murder conviction of Pedro Hernandez in an infamous 1979 missing-child case. Hernandez was convicted in February in the death of 6-year-old Etan Patz, who vanished on his way to a school bus (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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FILE- In this Nov. 15, 2012, file photo, Pedro Hernandez appears in Manhattan criminal court in New York. A New York judge on Thursday, April 6, 2017, denied a motion to throw out the murder conviction of Hernandez in an infamous 1979 missing-child case. Hernandez was convicted in February in the death of 6-year-old Etan Patz, who vanished on his way to a school bus. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, Pool, File)
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In this image released by Fox, Morocco Omari appears in a scene from "Empire." Omari was arrested Wednesday, April 5, 2017, on a misdemeanor domestic battery charge in Chicago. In a news release, police say 46-year-old Morocco Omari was arrested Wednesday after officers were called to the Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side by a 24-year-old woman who identified herself as Omari’s girlfriend. (Chuck Hodes/FOX via AP)
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In a press conference on the steps of the Orange County Courthouse, Florida Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala announces Thursday, March 16, 2017, that her office will no longer pursue the death penalty as a sentence in any case brought before the 9th Judicial Circuit of Florida. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
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Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter signs a proclamation dedicating April 2 through April 8 "Crime Victims' Rights Week" in Boise, Idaho Thursday, April 6, 2017. Senate Majority Caucus Chair Todd Lakey said Thursday he will bring back his proposal during the 2018 legislative session after his first version was spiked by a House committee earlier this year. The proposal would have required that crime victims be notified of all court proceedings and be heard at each step along the way. It also would have declared that full and timely restitution is a right. (AP Photo/Kimberlee Kruesi)
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In this undated photo, Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson sits behind his desk at the Mississippi County Detention Center in Charleston, Mo. Hutcheson, a southeast Missouri sheriff, was charged Wednesday, April 5, 2017, with assault for allegedly handcuffing a 77-year-old woman with enough force to cause her to have a heart attack. (Leonna Heuring/Standard via AP)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmate Jason McGehee. A judge on Thursday, April 6, 2017, blocked the execution of McGehee, one of the eight inmates Arkansas was planning to put to death this month. The ruling came a day after the Arkansas Parole Board recommended Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson grant McGehee clemency. (Arkansas Department of Correction via AP, File)
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FILE - In this April 20, 2015 file photo, Robert Gentile is brought into the federal courthouse in a wheelchair for a hearing in Hartford, Conn. Gentile, who authorities say is the last surviving person of interest in the 1990 art heist from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, is scheduled to plead guilty to unrelated weapons charges, Thursday, April 6, 2017, in federal court in Hartford. (Cloe Poisson/Hartford Courant via AP, File)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmate Jason McGehee. A judge on Thursday, April 6, 2017, blocked the execution of McGehee, one of the eight inmates Arkansas was planning to put to death this month. The ruling came a day after the Arkansas Parole Board recommended Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson grant McGehee clemency. (Arkansas Department of Correction via AP, File)
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Phil Chenier drives during the 1975 NBA Finals. / AP archive
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FILE - In this July 7, 2015, file photo, Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight sits for a hearing in his murder case in Superior Court in Los Angeles. A Los Angeles judge on Thursday, April 6, 2017, ordered Knight's trial on murder and attempted murder charges to begin in January 2018, telling the Death Row Records co-founder that there would be no further delays and the date was set "in stone." (Patrick T. Fallon/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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Judge Jeffrey Locke speaks to members of the jury before closing arguments in the trial of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez at Suffolk Superior Court, Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Boston. Hernandez is on trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL player is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)
