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FILE - In this June 18, 2015 file photo, Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, N.C. In court documents unsealed Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, Roof, convicted of killing nine worshippers during Bible study at a black church drove toward a second black church after the shootings, according to South Carolina prosecutors who oversaw the federal case against him. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 16, 2017. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker calls for the U.S. Senate to vote on President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court at a news conference Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 in Madison, Wis. Fellow Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel, far right, also spoke in support of Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court. (AP Photo by Scott Bauer)
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Private Investigator Rebecca Dixon is sworn in as a witness during an evidentiary hearing at Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord, N.H., Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, on whether Owen Labrie should be granted a retrial. Labrie, a prep school graduate convicted of using a computer to lure an underage girl for sex, returned to court for a hearing on whether his lawyers damaged his case. (Geoff Forester/The Concord Monitor via AP, Pool)
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Attorney Jaye Rancourt, right, looks over copies of emails between St. Paul School students with Deputy Merrimack County Attorney Catherine Ruffle, left, at Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord, N.H., during an evidentiary hearing on whether Owen Labrie should be granted a retrial. Labrie, a prep school graduate convicted of using a computer to lure an underage girl for sex, returned to court for a hearing on whether his lawyers damaged his case. (Geoff Forester/The Concord Monitor via AP, Pool)
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Attorney Jaye Rancourt testifies Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, at Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord, N.H., during an evidentiary hearing on whether Owen Labrie should be granted a retrial. Labrie, a prep school graduate convicted of using a computer to lure an underage girl for sex, returned to court for a hearing on whether his lawyers damaged his case. (Geoff Forester/The Concord Monitor via AP, Pool)
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Owen Labrie sits during a break Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 during the second day of a hearing at Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord, N.H., on whether he should be granted a retrial. Labrie, a prep school graduate convicted of using a computer to lure an underage girl for sex, returned to court for a hearing on whether his lawyers damaged his case. (Geoff Forester/The Concord Monitor via AP, Pool)
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Tony Moreno looks to the jury as his guilty verdict is read by the jury foreperson in Middlesex Superior Court on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 in Middletown, Conn. Moreno threw 7-month-old Aaden off the Arrigoni Bridge that spans the Connecticut River between Middletown and Portland on July 15, 2015, and then jumped intending to kill himself, prosecutors said. (Patrick Raycraft/Hartford Courant via AP)
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Tony Moreno, right, appears in Middlesex Superior Court on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 in Middletown, Conn. Moreno was convicted by a jury that deliberated for a short time Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. Moreno threw 7-month-old Aaden off the Arrigoni Bridge that spans the Connecticut River between Middletown and Portland on July 15, 2015, and then jumped intending to kill himself, prosecutors said. (Patrick Raycraft/Hartford Courant via AP, Pool)
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Tony Moreno's mother, Denise Moreno, right, leaves Middlesex Superior Court on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 in Middletown, Conn. Moreno threw 7-month-old Aaden off the Arrigoni Bridge that spans the Connecticut River between Middletown and Portland on July 15, 2015, and then jumped intending to kill himself, prosecutors said. (Patrick Raycraft/Hartford Courant via AP, Pool)
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Tony Moreno looks to shake his attorney Norman A. Pattis' hand as court is dismissed following Moreno's guilty verdict in Middlesex Superior Court on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 in Middletown, Conn. Moreno threw 7-month-old Aaden off the Arrigoni Bridge that spans the Connecticut River between Middletown and Portland on July 15, 2015, and then jumped intending to kill himself, prosecutors said. (Patrick Raycraft/Hartford Courant via AP, Pool)
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Tony Moreno's defense attorney Norman A. Pattis leaves Middlesex Superior Court on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, following the guilty verdict of his client in Middletown, Conn. Moreno threw 7-month-old Aaden off the Arrigoni Bridge that spans the Connecticut River between Middletown and Portland on July 15, 2015, and then jumped intending to kill himself, prosecutors said. (Patrick Raycraft/Hartford Courant via AP, Pool)
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FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2016 file photo, Steve Knowlton talks about his mother Mary Knowlton, shown in family photos, during an interview in Punta Gorda, Fla. State Attorney Stephen Russell announced Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, that Punta Gorda Police Officer Lee Coel has been charged with felony manslaughter, and Police Chief Tom Lewis has been charged with misdemeanor culpable negligence. Coel faces up to 30 years in prison, and Lewis faces up to 60 days in jail. Authorities say 73-year-old Mary Knowlton was taking part in a roleplaying scenario Aug. 9 when she was mistakenly struck with a live round. The retired librarian was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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In this photo provided by Washington County, Md., Sheriff's Office, Edward Clarence Schneider is shown in a police booking photo March 15, 2016, in Hagerstown, Md. The California truck driver has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for shooting up a Hagerstown, Maryland, hotel room, sending bullets into nearby rooms, while he was high on crystal meth. (Washington County, Md., Sheriff’s Office via AP.)
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This undated Clark County Detention Center booking photo shows Moises Johnson, of West Palm Beach, Fla. Police say Johnson was arrested Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, pending a court appearance on felony assault and weapon charges after a gunshot was fired in the air during a fight between the three-member hip hop music group Migos and rapper Sean Kingston outside a Las Vegas Strip conference venue. No injuries were reported. (Clark County Detention Center/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, file photo, Lisa Marie Presley arrives at the 46th Annual Country Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, ruled that Presley must pay $50,000 to her estranged husband’s attorney in their messy divorce case, but that she does not have to pay him spousal support until other issues in the case are resolved. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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In this undated image released by the Lauderdale County, Miss., Detention Facility, Kavon D. McVay is seen in a booking photo. Mississippi authorities have arrested McVay on charges that he killed his romantic partner, her child, her mother and her sister. (Lauderdale County, Miss., Detention Facility via AP)
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State Sen. John Eklund discusses proposed legislation to help reduce the state's prison population by putting more emphasis on keeping nonviolent offenders in the community instead of behind bars, on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in Columbus, Ohio. Eklund says if offenders are doing their best to rehabilitate themselves, it doesn't make any sense to send them back to prison for minor violations of their parole. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)
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State Sen. Charleta Tavares discusses proposed legislation to help reduce the state's prison population by putting more emphasis on keeping nonviolent offenders in the community instead of behind bars, on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in Columbus, Ohio. Tavares said not every violation of the law necessitates a stay in prison. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)
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Gary Mohr, director of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, discusses proposed legislation to help reduce the state's prison population by putting more emphasis on keeping nonviolent offenders in the community instead of behind bars, on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in Columbus, Ohio. Mohr says that nationally, about 14 percent of offenders in state prisons are there for drug offenses, compared to 28 percent in Ohio. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)
