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This Oct. 13, 2016 booking image released by the Hardin County Detention Center, shows Stephen Kyle Goodlett, the former principal of LaRue County,Ky. High School. Goodlett, of Elizabethtown, Ky., was indicted Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Louisville on federal charges of possessing and transporting child pornography, news outlets reported. He admitted to seizing students’ phones so that he could steal pornographic images from them and trade them online, investigators said. He was fired after his arrest in October. (Hardin County Detention Center via AP)
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In this photo taken Dec. 6, 2016, the front side of the family home of Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., sits in an overgrown lot where Sessions grew up in Hybart, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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In this photo taken Dec. 6, 2016, a cross is shown where Les Johnson, 69, of Camden, Ala., a family friend of Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. says Sessions's parents were buried at the Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church cemetery in Bell's Landing, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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In this photo taken Dec. 6, 2016, the Wilcox County High School in Camden, Ala.. where Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., attended, graduating in 1965. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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In this photo taken Dec. 6, 2016, a water tower of Camden, Ala, hometown of Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., in Camden, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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In this photo taken Dec. 6, 2016, Les Johnson, 69, of Camden, Ala., a family friend of Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. is seen in the reflection of Sessions's parents tombstone at the Bell's Landing Presbyterian Church cemetery in Bell's Landing, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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This undated photo released by the Connecticut Department of Correction shows inmate Kacey Lewis, whose lawsuit claiming officials medicated him with psychotropic drugs against his will, was dismissed Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, because he refused to enter the courtroom on the first day of trial in federal court in in Hartford, Conn. (Connecticut Department of Correction via AP)
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FILE - This undated photo provided by the U.S. Department of Justice shows James Morales, an inmate who escaped on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016, from the Wyatt Correctional Center in Central Falls, R.I. Morales was being held in the Rhode Island detention center on charges that he stole 16 guns from a U.S. Army Reserve Center in Worcester. A Massachusetts state police spokesman said a man police believe was Morales attempted to rob a Bank of America in Cambridge, Mass. on Thursday morning, Jan. 5, 2017. (U.S. Department of Justice via AP, File)
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FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Ronald Phillips, convicted of the 1993 rape and murder of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter in Akron, Ohio. Federal Magistrate Judge Michael Merz in Dayton, Ohio, is hearing evidence in a weeklong trial over Ohio's newest lethal injection method using three drugs. Phillips is scheduled for execution on Feb. 15, 2017. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP, File)
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FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Dennis McGuire, executed in January 2014 for the 1989 rape and stabbing death of a recently married pregnant woman. McGuire repeatedly gasped and snorted during the 26 minutes it took him to die using a two-drug combination. Federal Magistrate Judge Michael Merz in Dayton, Ohio, is hearing evidence in a weeklong trial over Ohio's newest lethal injection method using three drugs. Ronald Phillips, convicted of the 1993 rape and murder of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter in Akron, Ohio, is scheduled for execution on Feb. 15, 2017. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP, File)
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Jamee Hiatt appears for sentencing in front of Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wilson, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Jackson, Mich. Hiatt, a former Leslie teacher, was sentenced to three years to 20 years in prison for first degree criminal sexual conduct involving a student, the Jackson Citizen Patriot reported. (J. Scott Park/Jackson Citizen Patriot via AP)
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Jamee Hiatt appears for sentencing in front of Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wilson, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Jackson, Mich. Hiatt, a former Leslie teacher, was sentenced to three years to 20 years in prison for first degree criminal sexual conduct involving a student, the Jackson Citizen Patriot reported. (J. Scott Park/Jackson Citizen Patriot via AP)
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Jamee Hiatt appears for sentencing in front of Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wilson, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Jackson, Mich. Hiatt, a former Leslie teacher, was sentenced to three years to 20 years in prison for first degree criminal sexual conduct involving a student, the Jackson Citizen Patriot reported. (J. Scott Park/Jackson Citizen Patriot via AP)
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This photo released by the New York Police Department shows an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle recovered during a police investigation, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2016 in the Staten Island borough of New York. Authorities say two New York City police officers shot and wounded a man in the Charleston neighborhood. Officers say during the search of the nearby woods they recovered the rifle and several spent shells. (NYPD via AP)
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Mounted Pennsylvania State Troopers flank the entrance to the Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, Pa., Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, as family, friends and police officers from across the country pay their respects to the family of Huntingdon County Trooper Landon Weaver, who was killed in the line of duty on Dec. 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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The Rev. Kylon Middleton, from left, Jennifer Pinckney, widow of Emanuel's slain pastor, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney and Johnette Martinez enter the courthouse in Charleston, S.C., Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, for the sentencing phase of Dylann Roof's trial. The jury last month unanimously found Roof guilty of hate crimes and other charges in the shooting deaths of nine black church members during Bible study. The jurors will now decide whether he should be sentenced to life in prison or death. (Leroy Burnell/The Post And Courier via AP)
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FILE - In this May 13, 2016 file photo, Jennifer Pinckney speaks beside an image of her late husband, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, one of the victims of the shooting at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, during the unveiling of the mural on a building a few blocks from the sanctuary. Convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof spoke to the jury for the first time at his death penalty trial Wednesday, telling them there's nothing wrong with him psychologically and that he is not trying to keep any secrets from them. As their first witness, prosecutors called Pinckney. During more than two hours on the stand, Pinckney described her husband as an affable figure who garnered respect from all corners in his roles as legislator and preacher but was a goofy family man in private with his two young daughters. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)
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A woman leaves Jordan's Fish and Chicken following a fatal early morning shooting Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. Indianapolis police said multiple men had been found fatally shot inside the restaurant following what a co-owner said is an apparent robbery. (Kelly Wilkinson/The Indianapolis Star via AP)
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This Dec. 17, 2016 photo shows a Donald Trump campaign sign along a highway near Los Banos, Calif. A California farmer says Donald Trump's campaign vow to deport millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally pushed him into buying more equipment, cutting the number of workers he’ll need during the next harvest. Others in California's farming industry say Trump's tough campaign talk targeting immigrants in the country illegally, including a vast number of farmworkers, spurred them into action, too. (AP Photo/Scott Smith)