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People carry the coffin of 14-year-old Ana Roselia Perez Junay, who died in a fire at a children's shelter, at the cemetery in Zaragoza, Guatemala, Sunday, March 12, 2017. The death toll in the March 8 fire rose to 40 on Sunday with the announcement that another girl has died of burns. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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People help Gloria Perez as she begins to faint during the burial of 14-year-old Ana Roselia Perez Junay who died in a fire at a children's shelter, at the cemetery in Zaragoza, Guatemala, Sunday, March 12, 2017. The death toll in the March 8 fire rose to 40 on Sunday with the announcement that another girl has died of burns. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
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Aaron Hernandez, front left, and defense attorney Jose Baez, front center, listen to defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden, right, question a ballistics expert during Hernandez's double murder trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado, in Boston, March 13, 2017. (Chris Christo/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
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First Assistant District Attorney Patrick Haggan, right, hands a revolver to Tyrone Camper, a Boston Police detective and member of the Firearms Analysis Unit, during the double murder trial of former New England Patriots NFL football player Aaron Hernandez, Monday, March 13, 2017, in Boston. (Chris Christo/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
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Aaron Hernandez, left, confers with his defense attorney Jose Baez during his double murder trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado in Boston, March 13, 2017. Hernandez, a former NFL football player, is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (Chris Christo/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
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Boston Police Detective Tyrone Camper offers ballistic testimony during the double murder trial of former New England Patriots NFL football player Aaron Hernandez, Monday, March 13, 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. (Chris Christo/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
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Aaron Hernandez confers with his defense attorney Jose Baez, Monday, March 13, 2017, during his double murder trial 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. (Chris Christo/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
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Supporters of SB54, which would create a statewide sanctuary for immigrants in the country illegally, prepare to testify for the measure in the Senate Appropriations Committee in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, March 13, 2017. The committee set the bill for a vote by the full Senate later this month. (AP Photo/Don Thompson)
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Opponents of SB54, which would create a statewide sanctuary for immigrants in the country illegally, prepare to testify against the measure in the Senate Appropriations Committee in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, March 13, 2017. The committee set the bill for a vote by the full Senate later this month. (AP Photo/Don Thompson)
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FILE - This Sept. 6, 2011 file booking photo provided by the Clark County Detention Center shows of Javier Righetti. A jury in Nevada is hearing an unusual question in the death penalty case of Righetti, whose guilty plea to murder in the rape, torture and mutilation of a 15-year-old high school sophomore was rejected by the state Supreme Court. Testimony resumed Monday, March 13, 2017, for jurors being asked to decide if Righetti’s attack on 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba was a premeditated act, which would make him eligible for the death penalty. (Clark County Detention Center via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2011, file photo, Javier Righetti, 19, makes his initial appearance on charges of the rape and murder of 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Testimony resumed Monday, March 13, 2017, for jurors being asked to decide if Righetti’s attack was a premeditated act, which would make him eligible for the death penalty. (Sam Morris/Las Vegas Sun via AP, File)
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A police car is parked in a parking lot on Monday, March 13, 2017, next to yellow police tape where an officer involved shooting took place on Sunday. California police shot a man dead after he barricaded himself inside a minivan with gas can and a lighter during a traffic stop before emerging with a knife, officials said Monday. Officers in the Los Angeles suburb of Orange pulled over the white minivan late Sunday for a vehicle code violation when the driver shut himself inside with a cigarette and lighter and poured gasoline onto a rag, said Orange police Lt. Fred Lopez. (AP Photo/Amy Taxin)
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate James Bigby. Bigby, who was convicted of killing a father and his infant son during a murder rampage on Christmas Eve 1987 that also left two other people dead nearly three decades ago, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening March 14, 2017, in Texas. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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Defense attorney Shevelle McPherson, left, stands next to her client, Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 20, of Orange, center, as Wheeler-Weaver appears in Superior Court in Newark to be arraigned for the murder of Robin West, 19 of Philadelphia. Wheeler-Weaver previously pleaded not guilty to the strangling deaths of Joanne Browne, 33, and Sarah Butler, 20. March 13, 2017 (Patti Sapone/NJ Advance Media via AP, Pool)
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Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 20, of Orange, N.J., appears in Superior Court Monday, March 13, 2017, in Newark to be arraigned for the murder of Robin West, 19 of Philadelphia. Wheeler-Weaver previously pleaded not guilty to the strangling deaths of Joanne Browne, 33, and Sarah Butler, 20. (Patti Sapone/NJ Advance Media via AP, Pool)
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FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2016 file photo, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca leaves federal court in Los Angeles. The federal corruption trial of Baca is nearing an end. Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday, March 13, 2017. The 74-year-old Baca is accused of obstructing justice and lying to federal authorities to thwart an FBI investigation into civil rights abuses in the county jails his agency oversaw. (AP Photo/Nick Ut,File)
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FILE--In this March 9, 2017, file photo, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson speaks at a news conference about the state's response to President Trump's revised travel ban in Seattle, Wash. Ferguson has asked a federal judge for a Tuesday, March 14, 2017, hearing on the case. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file)
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President Donald Trump takes card from Greg Knox's, left, written by his son, during a meeting on healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Derrick Stafford, left, one of two deputies charged with second-degree murder in the death of Jeremy Mardis, a 6-year-old autistic boy, arrives at the Avoyelles Parish courthouse for jury selection for his trial, in Marksville, La., Monday, March 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Defense attorneys Christopher LaCour, left, and Jay Goins arrive for jury selection for the trial of Derrick Stafford, one of two deputies charged with second-degree murder in the death of Jeremy Mardis, a 6-year-old autistic boy, in Marksville, La., Monday, March 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
