Law_Crime

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FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2012, file photo, packages of synthetic drugs are displayed in the North Dakota attorney general's office in the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. As drug enforcement authorities continue to sound alarms over the effects and accessibility of synthetic drugs, courts are struggling for consistency in dealing with substances whose popularity have outpaced the legal framework around them. The result is a sentencing process that’s often bogged down by complex science and can yield uneven results in different courtrooms around the country. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel, File)

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The patrol car of slain Florida police officer Lt. Debra Clayton was targeted by vandals over the weekend in front of the Orlando Police Department headquarters, where the car has been parked since her Jan. 9 death. (Twitter/@OrlandoPolice)

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FILE - In a Nov. 29, 2016 file photo, former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager testifies during his murder trial at the Charleston County court in Charleston, S.C. A judge on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, is asking lawyers defending Slager awaiting a retrial on a murder charge in a traffic stop shooting to talk to prosecutors about when to start his next trial. Slager’s attorneys want to delay the scheduled March 1 retrial. Media outlets report that Circuit Judge Clifton Newman will decide Tuesday whether to grant that request. Slager is charged with murder in the shooting death last year of Walter Scott. (Grace Beahm/Post and Courier via AP, Pool)

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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2013, file photo, Jonathan Turley, attorney for Kody Brown and his four wives, the stars of the reality show "Sister Wives," leaves the Frank E. Moss United States Courthouse, in Salt Lake City. The Supreme Court said Monday, Jan 23, 2017, it won't hear an appeal from the family on TV's "Sister Wives" challenging Utah's law banning polygamy. The decision ends the family's long legal fight to overturn a seldom used and unique provision of Utah's law that the Browns and other polygamous families contend has a chilling effect by sending law-abiding plural families into hiding because of fear of prosecution. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

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FILE - In this July 10, 2013, file photo, Kody Brown poses with his wives at one of their homes in Las Vegas. The Supreme Court said Monday, Jan 24, 2017, it won't hear an appeal from the family on TV's "Sister Wives" challenging Utah's law banning polygamy. The decision ends the family's long legal fight to overturn a seldom used and unique provision of Utah's law that the Browns and other polygamous families contend has a chilling effect by sending law-abiding plural families into hiding because of fear of prosecution. (Jerry Henkel/Las Vegas Review-Journal, via AP, File)

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Chair of IAAF Inspection Team Rune Andersen speaks to press after his talks with the president of the All-Russia Athletic Federation Dmitry Shlyakhtin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Andersen is in Moscow for two days of meetings with Russian sports bosses, as well as a law enforcement body which has been investigating various doping-related issues.(AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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FILE - This Sept. 1, 2013 file photo shows Soulja Boy performing at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, Calif. he rapper was charged Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, with felony weapon possession after police found an assault weapon and handgun that had been stolen from a police vehicle during a search of his Los Angeles home in December. (Photo by Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP, File)

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In this Jan. 13, 2017 photo, Karen Paternina, left, a 27-year-old accused of extortion, and a fellow inmate, stand in the Interno restaurant kitchen, inside the San Diego minimum security prison, in Cartagena, Colombia. Meals prepared and served behind bars by convicted felons are served at the Interno restaurant in a novel experiment intended to avoid recidivism. Paternina said she hopes the skills she has learned will help her open a pastry shop once she is released. (AP Photo/Alba Tobella)

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In this Jan. 13, 2017 photo, customers wait to be accommodated as a prison warden, left, guards the entrance of the Interno restaurant inside the San Diego prison, in Cartagena, Colombia. Inmates at the minimum security all-women prison have been cooking and serving up gourmet meals at the restaurant since December in a novel experiment intended to promote their rehabilitation. (AP Photo/Alba Tobella)

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This Jan. 13, 2017 photo show inmates who cook for the Interno restaurant in the kitchen at the San Diego prison, in Cartagena, Colombia. Convicts have been serving up gourmet meals at the Interno in the all-women prison since December, in a novel experiment intended to promote the inmates’ rehabilitation and confront the Colombian public’s neglect of the country’s exploding prison population. (AP Photo/Alba Tobella)

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In this Jan. 13, 2017 photo, inmates work in the dining room of the Interno restaurant at the San Diego prison, in Cartagena, Colombia. Convicts have been serving up gourmet meals at the Interno in the all-women prison since December, in a novel experiment intended to promote the inmates’ rehabilitation and confront the Colombian public’s neglect of the country’s exploding prison population. (AP Photo/Alba Tobella)

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FILE – In this March 15, 2004 file photo, Harrisburg, Pa., Mayor Stephen Reed stands behind the bronze sculpture Moment of Mercy by Terry Jones at the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, Pa. Jury selection is set to begin Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in the criminal case against Reed, charged with receiving stolen property after spending millions in public funds to buy artifacts for a Wild West museum that was never built. His lawyer says Reed didn't steal anything and was in lawful possession of the items. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump leaves the President's Room of the Senate at the Capitol after he formally signed his cabinet nominations into law, in Washington. A legal watchdog group plans to file a lawsuit Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, alleging that Trump is violating the Constitution by allowing his businesses to accept payments from foreign governments. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool, File)

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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010, file photo, a massive fire following a pipeline explosion roars through a mostly residential neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. says it is prepared to pay the maximum fine of $3 million after a jury convicted the company of deliberately violating pipeline safety regulations before a deadly natural gas pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area and then misleading investigators looking into the blast. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2010 file photo, a massive fire roars through a neighborhood in San Bruno, Calif. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. says it is prepared to pay the maximum fine of $3 million after a jury convicted the company of deliberately violating pipeline safety regulations before a deadly natural gas pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area and then misleading investigators looking into the blast. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

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Hattiesburg, Miss., volunteers Brenda Dillion and Vanessa Molden put together boxes of food to give out to tornado victims, law enforcement and others in need of food after Saturday's tornado in Hattiesburg on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. The enormous system put millions of people in the South on edge during a weekend of violent weather that left crumpled trailer homes, downed trees and other damage in the hardest-hit communities from Mississippi to Georgia. (Susan Broadbridge/Hattiesburg American via AP)

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Law enforcement personnel work the scene after a deadly shooting at Rolling Oaks Mall in San Antonio, Texas, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Authorities say several were injured after a robbery at the shopping mall. (Edward A. Ornelas/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

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Law enforcement personnel work the scene after a deadly shooting at Rolling Oaks Mall in San Antonio, Texas, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Authorities say several were injured after a robbery at the shopping mall. (Jerry Lara/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

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