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In this courtroom drawing, Elvis Redzepagic, left, appears before Magistrate Judge Robert Levy, right, Saturday, March 4, 2017 in New York, during his arraignment on charges that he attempted to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. Prosecutors say the New York man repeatedly traveled to the Middle East to try to join the Islamic State or al-Nusra Front extremist groups and told authorities he'd been prepared to sacrifice himself for jihad. In the center is federal defender Mildred Whalen. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2015, file photo, an evidence marker sits next to a human skull as Davis County search and rescue members and crime scene investigators search a hillside, for more evidence in Fruit Heights, Utah. More police departments are amassing their own DNA databases, a move critics say is a way around stringent regulations governing state crime labs and the national DNA database.. (Scott G Winterton/Deseret News via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 12, 2010, file photo, Sarah Bettinger, a Senior DNA Analyst I at Bode Technology, removes tubes containing crushed bone from a centrifuge during the process of DNA extraction of bone samples from Mexico at the lab in Arlington, Va. More police departments are amassing their own DNA databases, a move critics say is a way around stringent regulations governing state crime labs and the national DNA database (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2012, file photo, Senior Criminalist Heide Elliott works on extracting DNA at the State of California Department of Justice Jan Bashinski DNA Laboratory in Richmond, Calif. More police departments are amassing their own DNA databases, a move critics say is a way around stringent regulations governing state crime labs and the national DNA database. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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In this photo taken Feb. 27, 2017, Jessica Wolfe, right, talks about her life story as she sits at The Genesis Project, a drop-in center for victims of sex trafficking in SeaTac, Wash. with King County Sheriff's Deputy Andy Conner, left, who founded center. Wolfe, who was forced into sex trafficking shortly after her 19th birthday is now struggling to find housing and a job after background checks find her prostitution convictions, but a measure passed last week in the Washington state Senate could rewrite current law to make it easier for victims of trafficking to vacate prostitution convictions. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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In this file photo taken Feb. 27, 2017, a law-enforcement guide to human trafficking sits on a table at The Genesis Project, a drop-in center for victims of sex trafficking in SeaTac, Wash. A measure passed last week in the Washington state Senate could rewrite current law to make it easier for victims of trafficking to vacate prostitution convictions. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) **FILE**
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In this photo taken Feb. 27, 2017, a poster on the wall of The Genesis Project, a drop-in center for victims of sex trafficking in SeaTac, Wash., refers victims to a similar program at different location. A measure passed last week in the Washington state Senate could rewrite current law to make it easier for victims of trafficking to vacate prostitution convictions. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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In this photo taken Feb. 27, 2017, Jessica Wolfe, right, talks about her life story as she sits at The Genesis Project, a drop-in center for victims of sex trafficking in SeaTac, Wash. with King County Sheriff's Deputy Andy Conner, left, who founded center. Wolfe, who was forced into sex trafficking shortly after her 19th birthday is now struggling to find housing and a job after background checks find her prostitution convictions, but a measure passed last week in the Washington state Senate could rewrite current law to make it easier for victims of trafficking to vacate prostitution convictions. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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In this photo taken Feb. 27, 2017, Jessica Wolfe, right, talks about her life story as she sits at The Genesis Project, a drop-in center for victims of sex trafficking in SeaTac, Wash. with King County Sheriff's Deputy Andy Conner, left, who founded center. Wolfe, who was forced into sex trafficking shortly after her 19th birthday is now struggling to find housing and a job after background checks find her prostitution convictions, but a measure passed last week in the Washington state Senate could rewrite current law to make it easier for victims of trafficking to vacate prostitution convictions. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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In this photo taken Feb. 27, 2017, Jessica Wolfe poses for a photo in the doorway of The Genesis Project, a drop-in center for victims of sex trafficking in SeaTac, Wash. Wolfe, who was forced into sex trafficking shortly after her 19th birthday is now struggling to find housing and a job after background checks find her prostitution convictions, but a measure passed last week in the Washington state Senate could rewrite current law to make it easier for victims of trafficking to vacate prostitution convictions. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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In this photo taken Feb. 27, 2017, Jessica Wolfe poses for a photo in the doorway of The Genesis Project, a drop-in center for victims of sex trafficking in SeaTac, Wash. Wolfe, who was forced into sex trafficking shortly after her 19th birthday is now struggling to find housing and a job after background checks find her prostitution convictions, but a measure passed last week in the Washington state Senate could rewrite current law to make it easier for victims of trafficking to vacate prostitution convictions. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014, file photo, an unidentified Guatemalan woman stands inside a dormitory in the Artesia Family Residential Center, a federal detention facility for undocumented immigrant mothers and children in Artesia, N.M. The nation's immigration courts are already overwhelmed, facing a backlog of more than half a million cases. Recent directives from President Donald Trump's administration to step up enforcement of immigration laws and expanding the number of people considered priorities for deportation could funnel even more people into the overloaded immigration court system. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca, File)
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FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 26, 2016, file photo, relatives of Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar hold up signs protesting his death, in front of Jordanian Prime Ministry in Amman, Jordan. Nahad Hattar, the writer, had been on trial for posting a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam on social media when an assailant killed him outside the courthouse. The shooter was a former mosque prayer leader motivated by anger over the cartoon, officials said at the time. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, in this March 2, 2017, file photo. (AP Photo/Brian Witte, File) (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo, Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein in Greenbelt, Md. Some Democrats worry the appointment of a Jeff Sessions subordinate to oversee any federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election won’t be a clean enough break from the embattled attorney general. Rosenstein, who faces his confirmation hearing next week for the role of deputy attorney general, was appointed top federal prosecutor in Maryland by President George W. Bush and remained in the political post for the entire Obama administration. (AP Photo/Brian Witte, File)
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016 photo, Michael Green, a criminal defense attorney and musician, is pictured in his office in downtown Vancouver, Wash. (Amanda Cowan /The Columbian via AP)
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016 photo, Michael Green, a criminal defense attorney and musician, is pictured in his office in downtown Vancouver, Wash., (Amanda Cowan /The Columbian via AP)
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016 photo, Michael Green, a criminal defense attorney and musician, is pictured in his office in downtown Vancouver, Wash., (Amanda Cowan /The Columbian via AP)
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In this Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016 photo, Michael Green, a criminal defense attorney and musician, is pictured in his office in downtown Vancouver, Wash.(Amanda Cowan /The Columbian via AP)
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Oregon's Lexi Bando, right, embraces Sabrina Ionescu after the team defeated Washington 70-69 in an NCAA college basketball game in the Pac-12 tournament, Friday, March 3, 2017, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)