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This June 20, 2012, file photo provided by ALM shows U.S. District Judge James "Jeb" Boasberg in Washington, D.C. (Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM via AP) ** FILE **
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ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 2017, AT 3:01 A.M. EST. AND THEREAFTER - In this Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2017 photo, Magisterial District Judge Richard King, right, chats with a City of Pittsburgh, Department of Permits, Licenses, and Inspections, officer at the courtroom in the Carrick neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Ask any district judge to describe his weirdest case to date and he'll stare at the air awhile, considering the treasures to choose from. King, has worn the robe for 24 years. (Lake Fong/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, FEB. 11, 2017, AT 3:01 A.M. EST. AND THEREAFTER - In this Jan. 23, 2017 photo, District Justice Dan Butler, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh courtroom, holds up a photo and talks about violations in the front yard during hearings on Housing Code. Ask any district judge to describe his weirdest case to date and he'll stare at the air awhile, considering the treasures to choose from. (Darrell Sapp/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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A bullet ridden sports utility vehicle is taken away by authorities after a gun battle with Mexican Marines in which a suspect identified by authorities as the leader of the Beltran Leyva cartel, Juan Francisco Patron Sanchez and several accomplices died in the exchange, in Tepic, Nayarit state, Mexico, early Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. The Interior Department said that Juan Francisco Patron Sanchez headed up the cartel's operations in the state of Nayarit and in the southern part of Jalisco state. (AP Photo/Chris Arias)
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A vehicle of Mexico's Medical Forensic Service leaves the scene after a gun battle with Mexican Marines in which a suspect identified by authorities as the leader of the Beltran Leyva cartel, Juan Francisco Patron Sanchez and several accomplices died in the exchange, in Tepic, Nayarit state, Mexico, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. The Interior Department said that Juan Francisco Patron Sanchez headed up the cartel's operations in the state of Nayarit and in the southern part of Jalisco state. (AP Photo/Chris Arias)
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A house riddled with bullet is seen from a rooftop after a gun battle with Mexican Marines, in which a suspect identified by authorities as the leader of the Beltran Leyva cartel, Juan Francisco Patron Sanchez and several accomplices died in the exchange, in Tepic, Nayarit state, Mexico, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. The Interior Department said that Juan Francisco Patron Sanchez headed up the cartel's operations in the state of Nayarit and in the southern part of Jalisco state. (AP Photo/Chris Arias)
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State police guard an area after a gun battle with Mexican Marines in which a suspect identified by authorities as the leader of the Beltran Leyva cartel, Juan Francisco Patron Sanchez and several accomplices died in the exchange, in Tepic, Nayarit state, Mexico, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. The Interior Department said that Juan Francisco Patron Sanchez headed up the cartel's operations in the state of Nayarit and in the southern part of Jalisco state. (AP Photo/Chris Arias)
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State police guard the area after a gun battle with Mexican Marines in which a suspect identified by authorities as the leader of the Beltran Leyva cartel, Juan Francisco Patron Sanchez and several accomplices died in the exchange, in Tepic, Nayarit state, Mexico, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. The Interior Department said that Juan Francisco Patron Sanchez headed up the cartel's operations in the state of Nayarit and in the southern part of Jalisco state. (AP Photo/Chris Arias)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 photo, a tractor sits idle at a 15-acre lot of public gardens in Phoenix. The sprawling urban garden on a vacant lot where Phoenix residents have grown everything from melons to okra closed Friday, Feb. 10 after the gardeners were mysteriously ordered out as a federal agency reassumes ownership of the land, stupefying and angering gardeners who called their eviction a classic case of government dysfunction. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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This Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 photo shows some of the dozens of individual gardens at a 15-acre public gardens, in Phoenix. The sprawling urban garden on a vacant lot where central Phoenix residents have grown everything from melons to okra for years has been closed as the federal government takes over the land. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 photo, Tareke Tekie, originally from Eritrea, washes freshly picked items from his garden at a 15-acre lot of public gardens in Phoenix. The sprawling urban garden on a vacant lot where Phoenix residents have grown everything from melons to okra closed Friday, Feb. 10 after the gardeners were mysteriously ordered out as a federal agency reassumes ownership of the land, stupefying and angering gardeners who called their eviction a classic case of government dysfunction. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Defendant Tony Moreno, center right, shakes hands with Frederick O'Brien, one of his defense attorneys, after walking into a courtroom at Middletown Superior Court, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, in Middletown, Conn. Moreno is charged with killing his 7-month-old son by throwing the boy off a bridge. (Patrick Raycraft/Hartford Courant via AP, Pool)
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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2006 file photo, Rick Derringer performs during a campaign rally kicking off George Wallace Jr's bid for the office of lieutenant governor in Montgomery, Ala. Prosecutors say Derringer carried a loaded gun in his carry-on bag on a Delta Air Lines flight from Cancun, Mexico, but was stopped after landing in Atlanta. Derringer was charged with unlawfully entering an airport’s secure area Jan. 9, 2017. His representatives didn’t immediately return multiple calls and emails. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)
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This Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, arrest photo made available by the Troup County, Ga., Sheriff's Office, shows Mary Rice, who faces multiple charges in Alabama and Florida in the deaths of four women. An arrest warrant says the 37-year-old woman was "a willing participant" and ammunition before a two-state killing spree ended with the other suspect, William "Billy" Boyette, fatally shooting himself in a motel room as a SWAT team closed in. (Troup County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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FILE-In this arrest file photo made available by the Escambia County Sheriff's Office, Fla., shows William "Billy" Boyette, under arrest in June 2015. An arrest warrant says a 37-year-old woman accused in the deaths of four women was "a willing participant" and bought ammunition before a two-state killing spree ended with the other suspect fatally shooting himself in a motel room as a SWAT team closed in. She surrendered TuesdayFeb. 7, 2017, in West Point, Ga., where she had been holed up with William "Billy" Boyette. (Escambia County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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Mike Lavoie, a manager at Klekolo World Coffee, shovels the sidewalk in front of the cafe under the watchful eye of a snowman painted on the window Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017 in Middletown, Conn. (Cloe Poisson/Hartford Courant via AP)
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A deer stand on a hill newly covered in snow at the Wissahickon Valley Park in Philadelphia, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Jim McGrath works to get his vehicle free from a snow bank at a dog park in Wrentham, Mass., Friday, Feb.10, 2017, one day after a snowstorm. (Mark Stockwell/The Sun Chronicle via AP)
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The rear windshield of a vehicle is held together by a transparent film with an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, after being struck by a couple of bullets in Culiacan, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. The Sinaloa state prosecutor’s office said in a statement that several suspects and a Mexican marine died in an early morning clash after heavily armed men attacked the marines while on patrol in the city. (AP Photo/Rashide Frias)
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The working press is under assault as Mexico faces a rising tide of violence generally, fueled in large part by clashes between large and powerful drug cartels. (Associated Press/File)
