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Michael and Deborah Frein, the parents of Eric Frein, walk to the Chester County Justice Center in West Chester, Pa, Thursday, March 9, 2017. Lawyers began the process of picking a jury Thursday in the capital murder trial of Frein, charged with killing a Pennsylvania State Police trooper and critically wounding another in a 2014 ambush at their barracks. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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This undated photo provided by the Cook County Sheriff's Department shows Thaddeus Jimenez. Jimenez, who won a $25 million award in 2012 for a wrongful murder conviction only to spend it on rebuilding his Simon City Royals street gang was sentenced to nine years in prison by a federal judge Thursday March. 9, 2017, in Chicago. U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber sentenced Jimenez after prosecutors showed a video of Jimenez calmly shooting a former gang member in both legs. (Cook County Sheriff's Department via AP)
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In this photo taken Monday, March 6, 2017, in San Francisco, released confidential files by The University of California of a sexual misconduct case, like this one against UC Santa Cruz Latin Studies professor Hector Perla is shown. Perla was accused of raping a student during a wine-tasting outing in June 2015. Some of the files are so heavily redacted that on many pages no words are visible. Perla is one of 113 UC employees found to have violated the system's sexual misconduct policies in recent years, according to hundreds of pages of documents released in response to public records requests by The Associated Press and other media. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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This booking photo released by the Vermont State Police shows Timothy Butler, of Sunderland, Vt., arrested Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in the murder of Helen Jones, 81, who was found stabbed to death in her Arlington, Vt., home on Jan. 4. (Vermont State Police via AP)
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Sgt. John Perrine of the Indiana State Police speaks during a news conference for the latest information on the double homicide investigation Thursday, March 9, 2017, at Carroll County Courthouse in Delphi, Indiana. Delphi teens Liberty German and Abigail Williams were found dead Feb. 14 after hiking on Delphi Historic Trails the day before. Perrine said there is no new information to release about the investigation into the girls' murder, but added every tip is being checked. (John Terhune/Journal & Courier via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Warren County Sheriff's Department in Warrenton, Mo., shows Juan Thompson, of St. Louis. Thompson, who is accused of making bomb threats to several Jewish centers across the country, was in federal court in Missouri on Wednesday, March 8, 2017, to determine whether he can be released on bail. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Noce did not immediately issue a ruling. (Warren County Sheriff's Department via AP)
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Federal, state and local law enforcement stand outside the Jewish Children's Museum following a bomb threat, Thursday March 9, 2017 in Brooklyn borough of New York. New York City's head of police intelligence says investigators believe one person is behind a large number of the threats made against U.S. Jewish institutions this year. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson finishes a news conference about the state's response to President Trump's revised travel ban Thursday, March 9, 2017, in Seattle. Legal challenges against Trump's revised travel ban mounted Thursday as Washington state said it would renew its request to block the executive order. It came a day after Hawaii launched its own lawsuit, and Ferguson said both Oregon and New York had asked to join his state's legal action. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson speaks at a news conference about the state's response to President Trump's revised travel ban Thursday, March 9, 2017, in Seattle. Legal challenges against Trump's revised travel ban mounted Thursday as Washington state said it would renew its request to block the executive order. It came a day after Hawaii launched its own lawsuit, and Ferguson said both Oregon and New York had asked to join his state's legal action. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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This photo provided by the Ben Hill County Sheriff's Office, Ga., shows Bo Dukes on Friday, March 3, 2017. Dukes was arrested in connection with the 2005 disappearance of Irwin County High School teacher Tara Grinstead. News organizations are challenging a judge's gag order in the case involving the slaying of Grinstead. (Ben Hill County Sheriff's Office/WMAZ via AP)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2006, file photo, missing teacher Tara Grinstead is displayed on a billboard in Ocilla, Ga. News organizations are challenging a judge's gag order in a case involving the slaying of Grinstead. (AP Photo/Elliott Minor, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 1995 file photo, attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. holds O.J. Simpson as the not guilty verdict is read in a Los Angeles courtroom. At left is F. Lee Bailey and second from left is Robert Kardashian. Casey Anthony tells The Associated Press she sees parallels in her story to O.J. Simpson. The Florida woman was accused of killing her toddler when she went missing. Years earlier, Simpson was acquitted of killing his wife and her friend. Anthony also was acquitted but says both were tried unfairly in the court of public opinion. (AP Photo/Pool, Myung J. Chun, File)
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Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson listens to a question at a news conference the state's response to President Trump's revised travel ban Thursday, March 9, 2017, in Seattle. Legal challenges against Trump's revised travel ban mounted Thursday as Washington state said it would renew its request to block the executive order. It came a day after Hawaii launched its own lawsuit, and Ferguson said both Oregon and New York had asked to join his state's legal action. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This Feb. 23, 2017 photo shows Tykeam Jackson in Boston. The 21-year-old spent his youth in and out of juvenile detention and jails, leading a life centered on gangs and guns. "I was always having guns to protect myself. I just kept getting caught," he said. "I was hanging around the wrong crowd, being in the wrong areas, getting into the wrong activities." Over the past year, his outlook has changed. Even as a pending criminal case looms over him, he's slowly gaining confidence that he can break the cycle that has entangled him _ with the help of a unique organization called Roca. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi)
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In this June 14, 2016 photo, Glenn Straub speaks inside the power plant he had recently bought that services his shuttered Revel casino. On Thursday March 9, 2017, an appeals court ruled against Straub's claim that he should be allowed to buy the former Showboat casino next door, which is now operated as a non-gambling hotel by Philadelphia developer Bart Blatstein. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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U.S. Army Gen. Joseph Votel has accused Russia of providing weapons and material support to the Taliban in an effort to expand Moscow’s influence in the war-torn country. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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This Feb. 13, 2017 photo shows the tattoo on the right arm of U.S. veteran Hector Barajas, who was deported, as he sits in his office at the Deported Veterans Support House, nicknamed "the bunker" in Tijuana, Mexico. Barajas, a former paratrooper who was born in Zacatecas state, crossed illegally into the United States at age 7 and served in the Army from 1995 to 2001. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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In this Feb. 13, 2017 photo, U.S. Marine veteran Antonio Romo, who was deported, looks out from his apartment balcony in Tijuana, Mexico, where he can see the U.S. border wall separating San Diego, U.S. from Tijuana, Mexico. Romo, who became a U.S. resident before enlisting, was sent to federal prison in Texas for conspiracy to distribute and sell cocaine. He said prison made him human again because it was there that he first got psychological help. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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FILE - In this 2012 photo provided by a former member of the church, Jeffrey Cooper holds his infant daughter at her 2012 baby dedication at the Word of Faith Fellowship compound in Spindale, N.C. At second right is Frank Webster, an assistant North Carolina prosecutor who is married to church leader Jane Whaley's daughter, Robin, left. At right is Frank Webster's son, Brock. At second left is Jeffrey Coopers' wife, Natalie. A district attorney has asked the state to investigate two assistant prosecutors after an Associated Press story that quoted former congregants of a North Carolina church as saying the men derailed criminal probes into allegations of abuse by sect leaders. The AP story, released Monday, March 6, 2017, cited nine former Word of Faith members who said Frank Webster and Chris Back provided legal advice, helped at strategy sessions and participated in a mock trial for four congregants charged with harassing a former member. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - In this 2012 provided by a former member of the church, Word of Faith Fellowship leader Jane Whaley, center left, holds Jeffrey Cooper's infant daughter, accompanied by her husband, Sam, center right, and others during a ceremony in the church's compound in Spindale, N.C. The AP story, released Monday, March 6, 2017, cited nine former Word of Faith members who said Frank Webster and Chris Back provided legal advice, helped at strategy sessions and participated in a mock trial for four congregants charged with harassing a former member. The ex-congregants also said that Back and Webster, who is sect leader Jane Whaley's son-in-law, helped derail a social services investigation into child abuse in 2015 and attended meetings where Whaley warned congregants to lie to investigators about abuse incidents. (AP Photo, File)
