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FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2016, file photo, District Judge Julie Kocurek, here making her first public appearance after spending weeks recovering from an assassination attempt in November 2015, is welcomed back to the bench in Austin, Texas. Travis County officials are considering a $500,000 payment to Kocurek to avoid a potential lawsuit claiming authorities didn't do enough to prevent a shooting that left the judge seriously wounded. (Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)
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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2017, AT 3:01 A.M. EST.- Michelle Schwartzmier talks about her daughter, Casey Schwartzmier, January 19, 2017, who died following a heroin overdose. Casey told her mother if she ever died of an overdose she wanted her obituary to list her cause of death specifically, in hopes of helping others. (Andrew Rush /Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
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This Jan. 26, 2017 booking photo provided by Charles County, Maryland, Sheriff’s Office shows Bettih Shabazz in La Plata, Md. Shabazz, the granddaughter of Malcolm X, and her mother Malikah Shabazz, are charged with stealing a rental truck that was carrying seven pit bulls in what police say were inhumane conditions. Malikah Shabazz is also charged with animal cruelty. (Charles County, Maryland, Sheriff’s Office via AP)
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This Jan. 26, 2017 booking photo provided by Charles County, Maryland, Sheriff’s Office shows Malikah Shabazz in La Plata, Md. Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, and her daughter Bettih Shabazz, are charged with stealing a rental truck that was carrying seven pit bulls in what police say were inhumane conditions. Malikah Shabazz is also charged with animal cruelty. (Charles County, Maryland, Sheriff’s Office via AP)
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FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2016, file photo, a man holds a copy of the program for the funeral of Terence Crutcher during services to honor him in Tulsa, Okla. Crutcher was fatally shot Sept. 16 by Officer Betty Jo Shelby. Prosecutors are accusing defense attorneys for Shelby of trying to air their case in public and the media by asking a judge to throw out the first-degree manslaughter case against the officer. A judge is expected to decide the motions at a hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Tulsa Police Department shows Tulsa Police Officer Betty Jo Shelby, who fatally shot Terence Crutcher on Sept. 16, 2016. Prosecutors are accusing defense attorneys for Shelby of trying to air their case in public and the media by asking a judge to throw out the first-degree manslaughter case against the officer. A judge is expected to decide the motions at a hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. (Tulsa (Okla.) Police Department via AP, File)
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Highway patrol investigators investigate the scene after a school bus into several cars in South Los Angeles on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. A Fire Department spokesman said there were no injuries to the seven students or the driver aboard the bus. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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A car is wedged under a school bus that crashed in South Los Angeles on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. A Fire Department spokesman said there were no injuries to the seven students or the driver aboard the bus. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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FILE - In this May 16, 2016, file photo, actress Mischa Barton poses for photographers upon arrival at the screening of the film Loving at the 69th Cannes film festival in southern France. Sgt. Enrique Manduga of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department tells The Associated Press deputies and emergency responders found Barton at a West Hollywood apartment following a report of a woman yelling on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2017. Barton was taken to a hospital.(AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
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FILE- In this Nov. 27, 2016 file photo, New Orleans Police Department investigators study a crime scene after a fatal shooting in New Orleans. A proposed closed-door policy of New Orleans' all-night bars is an effort to shut the door on crime that has some Bourbon Street barkeeps perplexed. Along with the use of high-tech gadgetry such as license plate readers and high-definition cameras, New Orleans officials are proposing a requirement that bars keep their doors closed after 3 a.m. (Matthew Hinton /The Advocate via AP, File)
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In this Saturday, April 6, 2013, file photo, a Delta Airlines jet flies past the company's billboard at Citi Field, in New York. A Massachusetts man who authorities say assaulted a Muslim airline employee at New York's Kennedy Airport is facing hate crime charges. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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Russian lawmakers vote at the State Duma (lower parliament house) in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. The State Duma voted 380-3 Friday to eliminate criminal liability for battery on family members that doesn't cause bodily harm, making it punishable by a fine or a 15-day day arrest. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Russian lawmakers vote at the State Duma (lower parliament house) in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. The State Duma voted 380-3 Friday to eliminate criminal liability for battery on family members that doesn't cause bodily harm, making it punishable by a fine or a 15-day day arrest. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 22, 2016, file photo, people walk past Capitol Hill and the Supreme Court in Washington, during the March for Life 2016, the annual rally held on the anniversary of 1973 'Roe v. Wade' U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. The annual rally will be held Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, on the National Mall in the nation’s capital. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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This photo shows a Twitter post from the National Park Service's Redwoods National Park account, noting that redwood groves are nature's No. 1 carbon sink, which capture greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming Legal experts say the Justice Department could prosecute tweets from federal agency accounts by unauthorized users under federal hacking laws. Some say that even employees authorized to use official agency Twitter accounts could face legal jeopardy posting messages they weren’t supposed to write. (National Park Service via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate John Henry Ramirez, convicted of killing Corpus Christi, Texas, convenience store clerk Pablo Castro in 2004. A federal judge declared Ohio's latest lethal injection procedure unconstitutional on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, and the ruling may pose problems for states that use the disputed sedative midazolam. Ohio has been unable to obtain pentobarbital, although other states such as Missouri and Texas have been able to without saying where it’s from. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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FILE – This April 21, 2014, file photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Mark Christeson, convicted of killing a Missouri mother and her two children in February 1998. A federal judge declared Ohio's latest lethal injection procedure unconstitutional on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, and the ruling may pose problems for states that use the disputed sedative midazolam. Ohio has been unable to obtain pentobarbital, although other states such as Missouri and Texas have been able to without saying where it’s from. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP, File)
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FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows Ricky Gray, convicted of the 2006 murders of 9-year-old Stella Harvey and 4-year-old sister Ruby, as well as their parents Bryan and Kathryn Harvey, and executed Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va. A federal judge declared Ohio's latest lethal injection procedure unconstitutional on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, and the ruling may pose problems for states that use the disputed sedative midazolam, including Alabama, Oklahoma and Virginia. (Virginia Department of Corrections via AP, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Tilon Lashon Carter, convicted of killing 89-year-old James Eldon Tomlin in Fort Worth, Texas in 2004. A federal judge declared Ohio's latest lethal injection procedure unconstitutional on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, and the ruling may pose problems for states that use the disputed sedative midazolam. Ohio has been unable to obtain pentobarbital, although other states such as Missouri and Texas have been able to without saying where it’s from. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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FILE – In this November 2005 file photo, Larry Greene, public information director of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, demonstrates how a curtain is pulled between the death chamber and witness room at the prison in Lucasville, Ohio. Magistrate Judge Michael Merz in Dayton, Ohio, declared Ohio's new three-drug lethal injection process unconstitutional on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017, and delayed three executions, including the execution of Ronald Phillips that had been scheduled Feb. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
