Law_Crime

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FILE - This Oct. 8, 2014 file photo provided by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shows serial killer Charles Manson. California prison official says cult killer Manson is alive following reports that he was hospitalized on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation via AP, File)

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Attorney General Nominee Jeff Sessions Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2013 file photo, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler listens to arguments at the Supreme Court in Madison. Ziegler still had no challenger as a Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, filing deadline approached for the spring election. (M.P. King/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File, Pool)

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FILE - In this April 27, 2016 file photo, U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon speaks to reporters at the federal building in Chicago. President-elect Donald Trump said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel should ask for federal help if he isn't able to bring down a homicide count that soared last year. Current U.S. Attorney Fardon came under pressure when selected to be the top federal law enforcement official in Chicago three years ago to put violent crime at the top of the city's agenda. But from the start of his tenure, he tempered expectations about what a U.S. attorney's office could do. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Kansas Department of Corrections shows Curtis Ayers. Ayers, who is accused of killing Kansas City, Kan., police Detective Brad Lancaster on May 9, 2016, pleaded guilty to capital murder Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017. He also pleaded guilty to nine other charges related to Lancaster's death. Ayers agreed to serve life without parole on the murder count. (Kansas Department of Corrections via AP, File)

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An Aurora, Colo., Police Department officer ties crime tape around a small, ice-covered lake Tuesday, Jan. 3, in Aurora, Colo. Divers looking for a 6-year-old boy who apparently wandered away from his family's home on New Year's Eve found the body of a child in the lake Tuesday. An identification has not been made yet, but authorities notified David Puckett’s family because of suspicions the body is that of the boy, Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz said. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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A rope of crime tape is shown around a small, ice-covered lake Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, in Aurora, Colo. Divers looking for a 6-year-old boy who apparently wandered away from his family's home on New Year's Eve found the body of a child in the lake Tuesday. An identification has not been made yet, but authorities notified David Puckett’s family because of suspicions the body is that of the boy, Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz said. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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Aurora, Colo., Police Department officers string crime scene tape around a small, ice-covered lake Tuesday, Jan. 3, in Aurora, Colo. Divers looking for a 6-year-old boy who apparently wandered away from his family's home on New Year's Eve found the body of a child in the lake Tuesday just before noon. Officials have not identified the body yet. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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A bouquet of flowers stands below a rope of crime tape around a small, ice-covered lake Tuesday, Jan. 3, in Aurora, Colo. Divers looking for a 6-year-old boy who apparently wandered away from his family's home on New Year's Eve found the body of a child in the lake Tuesday just before noon. An identification has not been made yet, but authorities notified David Puckett’s family because of suspicions the body is that of the boy, Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz said. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2016 file photo, Steven Capobianco stands as he is declared guilty in his trial in Wailuku. Hawaii. Jurors who found the Maui man guilty of murder in the death of his pregnant ex-girlfriend and must now decide whether the killing was especially heinous. Capobianco faces life in prison. This verdict will determine whether he can receive an enhanced sentence of life in prison without the possibility for parole. /The News via AP)

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FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2007, file photo, Ricky Gray is escorted from the county courthouse in Culpeper, Va., following his preliminary hearing. Attorneys for Gray, are asking a federal judge to halt his scheduled execution so they can challenge the state’s plan to use drugs from a secret compounding pharmacy. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson heard arguments Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, from attorneys for Gray, who are seeking a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction in his case. He also heard from attorneys for the state. (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star via AP, File)

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FILE – In this Nov. 2, 2015, file photo, former professional wrestler Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, right, arrives for his formal arraignment at the Lehigh County Courthouse in Allentown, Pa. In a decision filed Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, a Pennsylvania judge dismissed the murder case against Snuka in the 1983 death of his girlfriend Nancy Argentino, saying Snuka is not competent to stand trial on counts including third-degree murder. Snuka's attorney told a judge in December 2016 that his client is in hospice care in Florida and has six months to live. (Michael Kubel/The Morning Call via AP, File)

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FILE – In this Nov. 2, 2015, file photo, former professional wrestler Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka, right, arrives for his formal arraignment at the Lehigh County Courthouse in Allentown, Pa. In a decision filed Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, a Pennsylvania judge dismissed the murder case against Snuka in the 1983 death of his girlfriend Nancy Argentino, saying Snuka is not competent to stand trial on counts including third-degree murder. Snuka's attorney told a judge in December 2016 that his client is in hospice care in Florida and has six months to live. (Michael Kubel/The Morning Call via AP, File)

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This undated booking photo provided by the Westminster Police Department shows Christopher Ken Ireland. Ireland of Huntington Beach, was booked Monday, Jan. 2, 2017, on two counts of suspicion of murder in the deaths of 59-year-old Yolanda Holtrey and her 49-year-old friend, a woman whose name wasn't immediately made public pending notification of her family. (Westminster Police Department via AP)

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File - In this Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015 file photo, Palestinian mourners carry the body of Malik Shaheen, 21, who was killed in clashes with Israeli troops, during his funeral in Deheishe refugee camp near the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Israeli advocacy group Yesh Din is criticizing what it says is an "exceptionally low" prosecution rate by the Israeli military in cases of violence committed by soldiers against Palestinians. Yesh Din says the army opened 186 criminal investigations into suspected offenses against Palestinians in 2015, but just four of those investigations yielded indictments. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

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Bengals cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones is arraigned Tuesday Jan. 3, 2017 in Hamilton County Municipal Court, in Cincinatti, after be charged with a felony charge of harassment with a bodily substance. He is also charged with assault, disorderly conduct and obstructing police. An attorney representing Jones has told a Hamilton County judge that he "vehemently denies" the charges that led to his arrest. The judge set bonds totaling $37,500. /The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)

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FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2015, file photo, Supreme Court Justices take their seats at the Kansas Supreme Court in Topeka, Kan. The state Supreme Court is heading into a year in which it could shape policy with major rulings on school funding and abortion. The justices heard arguments in September in a school funding lawsuit and could rule any time on whether the state fulfills its obligation to provide a suitable education to Kansas students. Chief Justice Lawton Nuss also will be pushing legislators to increase pay for judges and court employees. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)

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FILE - This Sept. 21, 2016, file photo shows Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss in Topeka, Kan. The state’s Supreme Court is heading into a year in which it could shape policy with major rulings on school funding and abortion. The justices heard arguments in September in a school funding lawsuit and could rule any time on whether the state fulfills its obligation to provide a suitable education to Kansas students. Nuss also will be pushing legislators to increase pay for judges and court employees. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Col. Tyree Blocker speaks, with Gov. Tom Wolf at right, as Wolf visits the State Police Huntingdon Barracks to offer his condolences, Monday, Jan. 2, 2017, after Trooper Landon Weaver, 23, who was stationed at the barracks, was killedvwhile investigating a reported violation of a protection from abuse order Friday night. State police shot and killed the suspect in Weaver's death after an overnight manhunt. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks at the State Police Huntingdon Barrack at the State Police Huntingdon Barracks in Huntingdon, Pa., Monday, Jan.2, 2017, after Trooper Landon Weaver, 23, who was stationed at the barracks, was killed while investigating a reported violation of a protection from abuse order Friday night. State police shot and killed the suspect in Weaver's death after an overnight manhunt. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)