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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Sacramento County Sheriff's office shows Michael Lacey. Lacey and two other operators of an international website, Backpage.com, that advertises escort services, appeared Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Sacramento County Superior Court to face renewed charges that include pimping,conspiracy and money laundering. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen,File)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Sacramento County Sheriff's office shows James Larkin. Larkin and two other operators of an international website, Backpage.com, that advertises escort services, appeared in Sacramento County Superior Court Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, to face renewed charges that include pimping, conspiracy and money laundering. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen,File)
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FILE -This undated file photo provided by the Sacramento County Sheriff's office shows Carl Ferrer. Ferrer and two other operators of an international website, Backpage.com, that advertises escort services, appeared in Sacramento County Superior Court on pimping conspiracy and money laundering charges, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. (Sacramento County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2017 file photo from left, Backpage.com CEO Carl Ferrer, former owner James Larkin, COO Andrew Padilla, and former owner Michael Lacey, are sworn-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, prior to testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee hearing into Backpage.com's alleged facilitation of online sex trafficking. Ferrer, Lacy and Larkin appeared in Sacramento Superior Court Tuesday, Jan. 24 to face renewed charges that include pimping, conspiracy and money laundering. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
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Civil rights activist Najee Ali bites his lips while holding a portrait of Ezell Ford at a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Los Angeles. Two Los Angeles police officers acted in self-defense when they fatally shot the 25-year-old black man during a struggle over an officer's gun and will not face criminal charges for the 2014 shooting that led to protests, prosecutors said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Ezell Ford's mother, Tritobia Ford, sheds tears while speaking at a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Los Angeles. Two Los Angeles police officers acted in self-defense when they fatally shot the 25-year-old black man during a struggle over an officer's gun and will not face criminal charges for the 2014 shooting that led to protests, prosecutors said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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FBI Director James B. Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Jan. 10, 2017, file photo. Comey is staying in his job. A Justice Department memo lists him among officials remaining in their positions. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
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Thomas Yoxall, the man who fatally shot a suspect beating an Arizona state trooper, explains during his recounting how he killed Leonard Pennelas-Escobar who was beating Trooper Edward Andersson "in a savage way" during a news conference at the Department of Public Safety Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Thomas Yoxall, the man who fatally shot a suspect beating an Arizona state trooper, talks about his efforts of how he killed Leonard Pennelas-Escobar who was beating Trooper Edward Andersson "in a savage way" during a news conference at the Department of Public Safety Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Department of Public Safety Director Frank Milstead, right, arrives for a news conference, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Phoenix, with good samaritan Thomas Yoxall, left, the man who fatally shot a suspect beating an Arizona state trooper. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Thomas Yoxall, the man who fatally shot a suspect beating an Arizona state trooper, explains how he killed Leonard Pennelas-Escobar who was beating Trooper Edward Andersson "in a savage way", during a news conference at the Department of Public Safety, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Thomas Yoxall, the man who fatally shot a suspect beating an Arizona state trooper, pauses as he is overcome with emotion as he explains his recounting how he killed Leonard Pennelas-Escobar who was beating Trooper Edward Andersson "in a savage way" during a news conference at the Department of Public Safety Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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FILE - In this Aug. 11, 2015, file photo, protestors, holding photos of Ezell Ford, chant for Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck's firing during a Los Angeles Police Commission meeting in downtown Los Angeles. Two Los Angeles police officers acted in self-defense when they fatally shot a 25-year-old black man during a struggle over an officer's gun and will not face criminal charges for the 2014 shooting that led to protests, prosecutors said Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
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FILE - In this July 6, 2015, file photo, a mural and memorial for the late Ezell Ford Jr., who was fatally shot by Los Angeles police officers is seen in South Los Angeles. Two Los Angeles police officers acted in self-defense when they fatally shot the 25-year-old black man during a struggle over an officer's gun and will not face criminal charges for the 2014 shooting that led to protests, prosecutors said Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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FILE - In this May 31, 2009 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military and made through a window, flags wave at the entrance to Camp Justice, the site of the U.S. war crimes tribunal compound on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. The first session of the Guantanamo Bay war crimes tribunal under President Donald Trump may have hit a snag. A pretrial hearing in the Sept. 11 terrorism case scheduled to start Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017 and run through next week could be postponed because the lead attorney for one of the five defendants was unable to make it to the U.S. base in Cuba after breaking her arm in Washington over the weekend. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)
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This photo provided by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals shows Judge Neil Gorsuch. President Donald Trump has narrowed his choice to fill the Supreme Court vacancy to three judges and said he expects to make his decision in the coming days. The leading contenders, who all have met with Trump, are Gorsuch, William Pryor and Thomas Hardiman, the person said, speaking anonymously because he was not authorized to speak publicly about internal decisions. (10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals via AP)
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A local news crew reports from a house in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. Homicide detectives are investigating the death of Fabio Sementilli, an internationally known hairdresser and beauty company executive found beaten and stabbed outside his Los Angeles home. Police say paramedics found Sementilli bleeding profusely Monday afternoon at the gated house in the upscale Woodland Hills neighborhood. The 49-year-old suffered multiple stab wounds and died at the scene. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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An unknown visitor arrives at a gated house in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. Homicide detectives are investigating the death of Fabio Sementilli, an internationally known hairdresser and beauty company executive found beaten and stabbed outside his Los Angeles home. Police say paramedics found Sementilli bleeding profusely Monday afternoon at the gated house in the upscale Woodland Hills neighborhood. The 49-year-old suffered multiple stab wounds and died at the scene. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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Attorney Bill Massey, right, touches his client, Treveno Campbell, during the first day of his murder trial Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, at the Shelby County Criminal Justice Center in Memphis, Tenn. Campbell is charged with killing Memphis police officer Martoiya Lang in 2011. (Yalonda M. James/The Commercial Appeal via AP)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department shows Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem. A jury on Thursday, March 17, 2016, convicted an Arizona man of conspiring to support Islamic State in one of the first trials in the U.S. involving charges related to the terrorist group. Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem also was found guilty on other counts stemming from an attack last spring at a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas. Kareem was stoic when the verdict was read. (Maricopa County Sheriff's Department via AP, File)