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In this Thursday, March 16, 2017 photo, Judge Royal Hansen presides over the Salt Lake County Third District Veterans Court graduation ceremony in Salt Lake City, Utah. It’s been two years now since Hansen launched the specialty court open exclusively to veterans of the armed forces who find themselves on the wrong side of the law. (Tom Smart/The Deseret News via AP)
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In this Thursday, March 16, 2017 photo, Judge Royal Hansen congratulates graduate Reed Jensen at the Salt Lake County Third District Veterans Court graduation ceremony in Salt Lake City, Utah. It’s been two years now since Hansen launched the specialty court open exclusively to veterans of the armed forces who find themselves on the wrong side of the law. (Tom Smart/The Deseret News via AP)
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FILE – In this Jan. 6, 2014, file photo, Monsignor William Lynn leaves a bail hearing at the Center for Criminal Justice in Philadelphia. Lynn, long imprisoned over his handling of abuse complaints, may learn Friday, March 24, 2017, if his legal odyssey will come to an end. Lynn served nearly three years of a three- to six-year sentence when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court tossed his conviction over trial errors. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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FILE – In this May 5, 2004, file photo, Nathan DeRolph, who in 1991 started the original lawsuit that led to an Ohio Supreme Court ruling that the state's school funding system was unconstitutional, gestures during a school funding rally at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. Twenty years after justices ruled 4-3 in the case DeRolph v. State on March 24, 1997, hundreds of new school buildings dot the landscape and the notion of what constitutes an adequate education is regularly debated in U.S. state capitals. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)
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In this Sept. 11, 2001, file photo, smoke billows from one of the towers of the World Trade Center and flames as debris explodes from the second tower in New York. Family members of 9/11 families and others harmed in the terrorist attacks are on a fresh quest to hold Saudi Arabia responsible. A magistrate judge presiding over a Thursday, March 23, 2017, hearing says she hopes to streamline the legal process to speed the lawsuits along. (AP Photo/Chao Soi Cheong, File)
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Former Penn State president Graham Spanier, center, walks from the Dauphin County Courthouse in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, March 23, 2017. The jury in Spanier's criminal trial is going home after hours of deliberations without reaching a verdict. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Former Penn State president Graham Spanier walks from the Dauphin County Courthouse in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, March 23, 2017. The jury in Spanier's criminal trial is going home after hours of deliberations without reaching a verdict. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Former Penn State president Graham Spanier walks from the Dauphin County Courthouse in Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, March 23, 2017. The jury in Spanier's criminal trial is going home after hours of deliberations without reaching a verdict. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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In this photo taken Aug. 12, 2015, workers assemble a truck at Ford Motor Company’s Ohio Assembly Plant Wednesday, Aug. 12, in Avon Lake, Ohio. The United Auto Workers union on Friday, Nob. 6, 2015, has reached a tentative contract agreement with Ford. The contract covers 53,000 workers at 22 U.S. plants. (AP Photo/David Richard)
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This March 9, 2017, photo provided by a Malvern, Pa., resident who recently adopted a dog now named Cranberry shows the female pit bull mix sleeping in her new home in Malvern, Pa. Philadelphia police officer Michael Long, an 11-year veteran of the force who is accused of putting the dog in a trash bag and dumping it in a park, was arrested Thursday, March 23, 2017, on animal cruelty and related misdemeanor charges, according to the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A passerby found the dog on Nov. 23, 2016, and animal welfare officers took the emaciated animal to a shelter for medical care. (AP Photo)
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This March 9, 2017, photo provided by a Malvern, Pa., resident who recently adopted a dog now named Cranberry shows the female pit bull mix in her new home in Malvern. Philadelphia police officer Michael Long, an 11-year veteran of the force who is accused of putting the dog in a trash bag and dumping it in a park, was arrested Thursday, March 23, 2017, on animal cruelty and related misdemeanor charges, according to the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. (AP Photo)
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This Feb. 25, 2017, photo provided by a Malvern, Pa., resident who recently adopted a dog now named Cranberry shows the female pit bull mix in her new home in Malvern. Philadelphia police officer Michael Long, an 11-year veteran of the force who is accused of putting the dog in a trash bag and dumping it in a park, was arrested Thursday, March 23, 2017, on animal cruelty and related misdemeanor charges, according to the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. (AP Photo)
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This Nov. 23, 2016, photo provided by Barbara Adams via the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, shows the emaciated dog she noticed inside a trash bag that day in Wissahickon Valley Park in Philadelphia. Philadelphia police officer Michael Long, an 11-year veteran of the force accused of dumping the dog in the park, was arrested Thursday, March 23, 2017, on animal cruelty and related misdemeanor charges, according to the PSPCA. Animal welfare officers took the dog to a shelter for medical care, and a Malvern, Pa., resident has since adopted the female pit bull mix and named the dog Cranberry. (Barbara Adams/PSPCA via AP)
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This Jan. 26, 2017, photo provided by a Malvern, Pa., resident who recently adopted a dog now named Cranberry shows the female pit bull mix in her new home in Malvern. Philadelphia police officer Michael Long, an 11-year veteran of the force who is accused of putting the dog in a trash bag and dumping it in a park, was arrested Thursday, March 23, 2017, on animal cruelty and related misdemeanor charges, according to the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. (AP Photo)
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A police dog handler patrolled near the Houses of Parliament in London on Thursday on her way to the House of Parliament. On Wednesday a man went on a deadly rampage, first driving a car into pedestrians then stabbing a police officer to death. (Associated Press)
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Former Republican Sen. George Maziarz, second from left, with his attorneys E. Stewart Jones of Troy, left, and Joe Latona of Buffalo, center, stands before Judge Peter Lynch for his arraignment in Albany County Court, Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Albany, N.Y. Maziarz, pleaded not guilty to charges that he used campaign money to secretly pay an ex-staffer accused of sexual harassment. (Skip Dickstein/Times Union, via AP)
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Republican state Sen. Robert Ortt, left, with his attorney Steven Coffey, right, stands before Judge Peter Lynch for his arraignment in Albany County Court, Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Albany, N.Y. Ortt of Niagara County pleaded not guilty Thursday in Albany to charges that, as mayor of North Tonawanda, he arranged for a no-show job for his wife in order to pad his salary. Ortt dismissed the charges as politically motivated. (Skip Dickstein/Times Union via AP)
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FILE - In this May 6, 2014 file photo, then state Senator George Maziarz speaks during a news conference in Albany, N.Y. The former Republican lawmaker from western New York is accused of election law violations. Maziarz pleaded not guilty Thursday, March 23, 2017, to felony charges that he used campaign money to secretly pay an ex-staffer accused of sexual harassment. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)
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Investigators put on protective suits before entering a home where four people were found dead, Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. A suspect is being held in San Francisco. Police are not saying how the four were killed and are not immediately identifying the victims, including their genders and ages .(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)