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Michael Rizo speaks with reporters outside Leataata Floyd Elementary School in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, March 20, 2017. Rizo cycled in and out of juvenile hall starting at age 11 and was recently released from a state-run juvenile lockup. He was at an event where two California state senators proposed four bills intended to keep more youthful offenders out of the criminal justice system. (AP Photo/Don Thompson)
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Duke's Rebecca Greenwell, center, is pressured by Oregon's Lexi Bando and Sabrina Ionescu (20) during the first half of a second-round game in the NCAA women's college basketball tournament in Durham, N.C., Monday, March 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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Duke's Lexie Brown guards Oregon's Sabrina Ionescu during the first half of a second-round game in the NCAA women's college basketball tournament in Durham, N.C., Monday, March 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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The vehicle carrying ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye leaves from her private home to prosecutors office in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon).
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Assistant District Attorney Patrick Haggan displays a handgun while questioning witness Alexander Bradley during the double murder trial for former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez in Suffolk Superior Court, Monday, March 20, 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 football 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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Witness Alexander Bradley, left, is shown a handgun by assistant district attorney Patrick Haggan, right, as he is questioned during the double murder trial for former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez in Suffolk Superior Court, Monday, March 20, 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 football 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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An investigation is underway after a shooting in the parking lot of the sheriff's Temple Station Monday, March 20, 2017, left a man dead inside a vehicle. A man armed with a shotgun and a handgun opened fire on Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies Monday in the parking lot of their station, unleashing a brief gunfight that ended with the suspect likely taking his own life, authorities said. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via AP)
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Gun rights advocates have plenty of other options to present to the Supreme Court with the question of carrying a firearm in public, legal professionals say. (Associated Press/File)
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Shelby County district attorney Amy Weirich discusses the dismissal of disciplinary charges against her during a news conference on Monday, March 20, 2017 in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)
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FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2014, file photo, a photo of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, who was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol near the Mexico-U.S border, leans against a podium on a church altar during a memorial mass in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. The attorney for the Border Patrol agent charged with second-degree murder in the fatal cross-border shooting of the Mexican teen is asking the court to bar video evidence, saying the agency didn't hold on to original copies of the footage. (AP Photo/Valeria Fernandez, File)
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FILE--In this Oct. 10, 2014, file photo, a poster in the likeness of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez hangs next to a makeshift memorial, where he was fatally shot two years ago by U.S. Border Patrol near the Mexico- U.S border, in Nogales, Mexico. The attorney for the Border Patrol agent charged with second-degree murder in the fatal cross-border shooting of the Mexican teen is asking the court to bar video evidence, saying the agency didn't hold on to original copies of the footage.(AP Photo/Valeria Fernandez, file)
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Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2017, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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FILE - In this March 16, 2017, file photo, provided by the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office in Norman Okla., shows Ralph Shortey. The FBI in Oklahoma City confirmed Monday, March 20, 2017, it is investigating Shortey, a Republican state senator who is facing felony child prostitution charges after police say he solicited sex from a 17-year-old boy. No federal charges have been filed against Shortey. (Cleveland County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2017, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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FILE - This Oct. 14, 2016, file booking photo provided by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office in Wichita, Kan., shows Patrick Stein, the alleged leader of a militia group accused of plotting to bomb a apartment complex in western Kansas where Somali refugees lived. In a filing Monday, March 20, 2017, court-appointed attorneys for Stein have asked a court to let them withdraw from the case. The filing exposes rifts between Stein and his attorneys over how to defend the case. (Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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Pro-life activists converge in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, during the annual March for Life. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **
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Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Monday, March 20, 2017, file photo during the committee's confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **
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Judge Jeffrey Locke addresses the jury during the double murder trial for former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez in Suffolk Superior Court, Monday, March 20, 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 football 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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Alexander Bradley, left, is questioned by assistant district attorney Patrick Haggan, right, as he testifies during the double murder trial for former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez in Suffolk Superior Court, Monday, March 20, 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 football 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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Alexander Bradley, left, is shown photographs as he is questioned by assistant district attorney Patrick Haggan, right, while testifiying during the double murder trial for former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez in Suffolk Superior Court, Monday, March 20, 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 football player is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)