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Marco Contreras, 41, right, is embraced by his mother, Maria Contreras, as his lawyers cheer following a Los Angeles court hearing during which he was declared factually innocent in Los Angeles on Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Contreras, whose attempted-murder conviction was tossed by a California judge, walked free Tuesday after 20 years in prison. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Dallas County Sheriff's Department shows salon worker Denise Ross. A jury on Tuesday, March 28, 2017, found Ross guilty of murder in the 2015 death of woman who was injected in the buttocks with industrial-grade silicone as part of an illegal cosmetic procedure. (Dallas County Sheriff's Department via AP File)
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FILE - This March 16, 2017 file photo released by the Bannock County Sheriff's Office shows a cyanide device in Pocatello, Idaho. The cyanide device, called M-44, is spring-activated and shoots poison that is meant to kill predators. The device that doused a 14-year-old boy and killed his dog was placed on public land despite a document by federal officials stating they would avoid such areas to reduce the risk of exactly what happened. The U.S. Department of Agriculture in November said it would not put the M-44 devices on public land in Idaho. But the U.S. Bureau of Land Management says GPS coordinates put the device on BLM land near Pocatello. (Bannock County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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In this photo taken Nov. 27, 2016, Mar-A Lago is seen from the media van window, in Palm Beach, Fla. A government watchdog will examine the taxpayer-funded travel costs when President Donald Trump travels to the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and the security procedures surrounding those trips, several congressional Democrats announced Tuesday, March 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, center, joined by, from left, Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, march 28, 2017, with former members of the U.S.A. Gymnastics national team to call on Congress to pass legislation that would require amateur athletics governing bodies to immediately report sex-abuse allegations to law enforcement and strengthen oversight of member gymnasiums and coaches. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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former Team USA gymnast Jeanette Antolin, right, accompanied by Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, left, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, to call on Congress to pass legislation that would require amateur athletics governing bodies to immediately report sex-abuse allegations to law enforcement and strengthen oversight of member gymnasiums and coaches. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Former Roane County Sheriff Bo Williams, right, speaks to his attorney during his sentencing hearing Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in Spencer, W. Va. Williams was sentenced to up to 10 years of home confinement in a case in which he was accused or stealing methamphetamine from a police storage locker while he was a city police officer in Spencer. He was the county sheriff for a few weeks before resigning in January. (AP Photo/John Raby)
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Raul Cortez. A federal appeals court has rejected claims from 36-year-old Cortez that his lawyers were deficient at his trial for a quadruple fatal shooting in McKinney in 2004 and upheld the conviction. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Rick Rhoades. A federal appeals court is allowing Rhoades, an inmate on Texas death row for nearly 25 years for a double slaying in Houston, to move forward with an appeal. In the Houston case involving Rhoades, 52, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to consider whether his trial judge in 1992 was wrong during the sentencing phase to exclude from jurors childhood photos depicting Rhoades in normal happy activities to show he was nonviolent and would do well in a prison environment. The judge had ruled the photos were irrelevant.(Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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Nan Bailly, owner of Alexis Bailly Vineyard, of Hastings, Minn., with attorney Meagan Forbes in the background, holds bottles of wines from her winery at a news conference Tuesday, March 28, 2017, outside the federal courthouse in Minneapolis to announce a lawsuit seeking to overturn a law that requires them to make their products with a majority of grapes grown in Minnesota, a state that's better known for its winters than vineyards. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)
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From left, attorneys Meagan Forbes and Anthony Sanders, and Minnesota winery owners Nan Bailly and Timothy Tulloch, hold a news conference Tuesday, March 28, 2017, outside the federal courthouse in Minneapolis to announce a lawsuit seeking to overturn a law that requires them to make their products with a majority of grapes grown in Minnesota, a state that's better known for its winters than vineyards. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, right, and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, center, lead a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, with former members of the U.S.A. gymnastics national team, from left, Dominique Moceanu, Jeanette Antolin, and Mattie Larson, to call on Congress to pass legislation that would require amateur athletics governing bodies to immediately report sex-abuse allegations to law enforcement and strengthen oversight of member gymnasiums and coaches. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - In this March 27, 2017 file photo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks to the media during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. The Trump administration issued a fresh threat to withhold or revoke law enforcement grant money from communities that refuse to cooperate with federal efforts to find and deport immigrants in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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Wagoner county and Broken Arrow law enforcement officers investigate the scene of a failed robbery that led to the death of the three robbers in Broken Arrow, Okla., on Monday, March 27, 2017. Police say they have arrested a woman suspected of driving the vehicle used by three men who were attempting to rob a home and were shot to death by the homeowner's son. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
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Wagoner county and Broken Arrow law enforcement officers investigate the scene of a failed robbery that led to the death of the three robbers in Broken Arrow, Okla., on Monday, March 27, 2017. Police say they have arrested a woman suspected of driving the vehicle used by three men who were attempting to rob a home and were shot to death by the homeowner's son. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
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Wagoner county and Broken Arrow law enforcement officers investigate the scene of a failed robbery that led to the death of the three robbers in Broken Arrow, Okla., on Monday, March 27, 2017. Police say they have arrested a woman suspected of driving the vehicle used by three men who were attempting to rob a home and were shot to death by the homeowner's son. (Ian Maule/Tulsa World via AP)
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FILE - This December 2016 file image released by the FBI shows a wanted poster for Robert Van Wisse, a former University of Texas student from Mexico sought in the 1983 slaying of a cleaning woman in Austin. Van Wisse, who authorities had sought for decades in the death of Laurie Stout has pleaded guilty to a charge of murder and will be sentenced to 30 years in prison. Van Wisse entered his plea Tuesday, March 28, 2017, as part of an agreement reached earlier with prosecutors. (FBI via AP)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Jasper County Sheriff's Office shows Tristan Potts, of Jasper, Mo. Potts was sentenced Monday, March 27, 2017, for second-degree murder, armed criminal action and attempted first-degree arson in the fatal shooting of his 12-year-old sister outside their rural southwest Missouri home in October 2015. Potts, who was certified to stand trial as an adult, pleaded guilty to the charges in December. (Jasper County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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The morning sun cuts through a hay fire's smoke southeast of Cherry and North Avenues Tuesday morning, March 28, 2017 south of Fresno, Calif. (Eric Paul Zamora /The Fresno Bee via AP)
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FILE-In this Jan. 18, 2017 file photo, Chrycynthia Davis, mother of Kharon Davis, poses for a portrait inside the doorway of her home while holding a poster she made for her son during an interview for the Associated Press, in Dothan, Ala. Kharon Davis was 22-years-old when he was arrested on a capitol murder charge in 2007 and booked into the Houston County Jail. Alabama prosecutors said Monday, March 27, 2017, they will not seek the death penalty against Davis who has been jailed for nearly 10 years while he awaits trial. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
