Law_Crime

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FILE - In this June 23, 2016 file photo, a boy sits on a wall as a member of the Baltimore Police Department walks by in the Penn North neighborhood of Baltimore, near the site of unrest following Freddie Gray's funeral. Baltimore's mayor and commissioner say they are eager and ready to change not only the culture of law enforcement, but the practice. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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FILE - In this June 23, 2016 file photo, members of the Baltimore Police Department patrol near the intersection of North and Pennsylvania Avenues, the site of unrest following Freddie Gray's funeral, in Baltimore. On Monday, April 3, 2017, the Department of Justice, the very agency that helped city officials root out the police department's worst problems and build a roadmap to reform, signaled it may abandon those efforts in favor of cracking down on violent crime. That left city leaders stunned, and pledging to carry out reforms as best they can. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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FILE - In this July 30, 2015 file photo, a man walks past a corner where a victim of a shooting was discovered in Baltimore. In a city that became emblematic of police abuse, excessive force and callous treatment of young black men, Baltimore's mayor and commissioner say they are eager and ready to change not only the culture of law enforcement, but the practice. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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The Capitol is mirrored in a parked car at dawn in Washington, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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A woman cries in front of Venezuelan National Police line during clashes in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. The demonstrators were trying to accompany opposition lawmakers in a march to the National Assembly for a session where they planned to debate removing Supreme Court magistrates who issued a ruling last week removing the last vestiges of power from the opposition-controlled congress. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

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FILE - In this July 24, 2016 file photo, King Demetrius Pendleton hangs a sign on the gate of the Governor's Residence next to a photograph of Philando Castile, in St. Paul, Minn. Attorneys for St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez argued in court Tuesday, April 4, 2017, that the officer cannot get a fair trial in Ramsey County, where Philando Castile was shot, because of pretrial publicity. Yanez is charged with second-degree manslaughter and two other felonies in the death of the 32-year-old Castile, who was shot in Falcon Heights in July 2016. (Scott Takushi/St. Paul Pioneer Press via AP)

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FILE - This Nov. 17, 2016 photo provided by the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office shows Jeronimo Yanez. Attorneys for St. Anthony police officer Yanez argued in court Tuesday, April 4, 2017, that the officer cannot get a fair trial in Ramsey County, where Philando Castile was shot, because of pretrial publicity. Yanez is charged with second-degree manslaughter and two other felonies in the death of the 32-year-old Castile, who was shot in Falcon Heights in July 2016. (Ramsey County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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CORRECTS SPELLING OF FIRST NAME TO LEDELL, NOT LEDELLE - FILE - This combination of undated file photos provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmates Stacey E. Johnson, left, and Ledell Lee. Both men are scheduled for execution on April 20, 2017. (Arkansas Department of Correction via AP)

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Turkish experts evacuate a victim of a suspected chemical weapons attacks in the Syrian city of Idlib, at a local hospital in Reyhanli, Turkey, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. A suspected chemical attack in a town in Syria's rebel-held northern Idlib province killed dozens of people on Tuesday, opposition activists said, describing the attack as among the worst in the country's six-year civil war. (DHA-Depo Photos via AP)

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CORRECTS YEAR OF PHOTO TO 2015, NOT 2018 - In a March 20, 2015 photo, Common Pleas Judge Paul Pozonsky, center, exits the courtroom with his defense attorney Robert Del Greco, right, and associate Mark Fiorilli, left, after pleading guilty to several charges involving the theft of cocaine evidence at the Washington County Courthouse in Pittsburgh. Former judge Pozonsky's lawyer on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to consider allowing his law license to remain suspended instead of permanently disbarring him. (Michael Henninger/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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CORRECTS YEAR OF PHOTO TO 2015, NOT 2018-In a March 20, 2015 photo, Common Pleas Judge Paul Pozonsky, center, exits the courtroom with his defense attorney Robert Del Greco, right, and associate Mark Fiorilli, left, after pleading guilty to several charges involving the theft of cocaine evidence at the Washington County Courthouse in Pittsburgh. Former judge Pozonsky's lawyer on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to consider allowing his law license to remain suspended instead of permanently disbarring him. (Michael Henninger/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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Pike County District Attorney Ray Tonkin, front center, arrives for the first day of the trial of Eric Frein, an anti-government survivalist accused of killing a Pennsylvania police trooper and injuring a second in a 2014 ambush at their barracks, on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at the Pike County Courthouse in Milford, Pa. Frein could face a death sentence if convicted in the sneak attack in northeastern Pennsylvania that killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson II, critically wounded Trooper Alex Douglass and led to a 48-day manhunt in the Pocono Mountains before U.S. marshals captured Frein. (Mike Mullen/The Times-Tribune via AP)

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The legal defense team for Eric Frein, an anti-government survivalist accused of killing a Pennsylvania police trooper and injuring a second in a 2014 ambush at their barracks, arrive for the first day of Frein's trial Tuesday, April 4, 2017, at the Pike County Courthouse in Milford, Pa. Frein could face a death sentence if convicted in the sneak attack in northeastern Pennsylvania that killed Cpl. Bryon Dickson II, critically wounded Trooper Alex Douglass and led to a 48-day manhunt in the Pocono Mountains before U.S. marshals captured Frein. (Mike Mullen/The Times-Tribune via AP)

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Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis speaks at a news conference at the department's headquarters in Baltimore, Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in response to the Department of Justice's request for a 90-day delay of a hearing on its proposed overhaul of the police department. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis arrives at a news conference at the department's headquarters in Baltimore, Tuesday, April 4, 2017, to respond to the Department of Justice's request for a 90-day delay of a hearing on its proposed overhaul of the police department. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis speaks at a news conference at the department's headquarters in Baltimore, Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in response to the Department of Justice's request for a 90-day delay of a hearing on its proposed overhaul of the police department. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis speaks at a news conference at the department's headquarters in Baltimore, Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in response to the Department of Justice's request for a 90-day delay of a hearing on its proposed overhaul of the police department. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., left, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. confer on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 3, 2017, as the panel met to advance the nomination of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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In this March 21, 2017, file photo, Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. A divided Senate Judiciary Committee backed Gorsuch, Monday, April 3, 2017. GOP likely to change Senate rules to confirm him. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, file photo, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh delivers an address during her inauguration ceremony inside the War Memorial Building in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) **FILE**