Law_Crime

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Former Mississippi House member Cecil McCrory arrives for a hearing at the U.S. Courthouse in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. McCrory, who pleaded guilty last year to money laundering conspiracy, will try to persuade a judge to let McCrory withdraw his guilty plea. (Justin Sellers/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)

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Former Mississippi House member Cecil McCrory arrives for a hearing at the U.S. Courthouse in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. McCrory, who pleaded guilty last year to money laundering conspiracy, will try to persuade a judge to let McCrory withdraw his guilty plea. (Justin Sellers/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)

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Maryland guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough (32) drives past Duquesne guard Brianna Thomas (55) during the second quarter of an NCAA college basketball game, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, in Pittsburgh.(AP Photo/Fred Vuich)

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In this July 15, 2011, file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at the federal courthouse in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

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U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger, left, announces Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, in Minneapolis that federal authorities in Minnesota have charged 21 people with conspiracy to commit health care fraud in what they describe as separate scams by six chiropractors that defrauded auto insurance companies out of more than $20 million. Listening at right is Minnesota Commerce Commishioner Mike Rothman. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

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Jasskirat Saini, 20, of Plainview, New York, is charged with 10 counts of aggravated harassment over racist graffiti found on Nassau Community College's campus between October and Dec. 20, 2016. (ABC 7NY screenshot)

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This is a Mississippi Department of Public Safety provided undated state driver's license photograph of Andrew McClinton, of Leland, Miss., who was arrested by the Greenville Police Department, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 in Greenville , Miss., in connection with the Nov. 1, 2016 fire at Greenville's Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church. McClinton, 45, has been charged with one count of first degree arson of a place of worship and is being held in the Washington County Detention Center, pending an initial appearance before the municipal court. (Mississippi Department of Public Safety via AP,)

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Ava Baudinet, one of a set of quintuplets recently born, rests at the St. Joseph's Nursery Intensive Care Unit, Wednesday, Dec, 21, 2016, in Phoenix. Margaret Baudinet gave birth on Dec. 4 to five healthy babies. (Mark Henle/The Arizona Republic via AP)

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Isabelle Baudinet, one of a set of quintuplets recently born, rests at the St. Joseph's Nursery Intensive Care Unit, Wednesday, Dec, 21, 2016, in Phoenix. Margaret Baudinet gave birth on Dec. 4 to four girls and one boy. The quintuplets remain in an intensive care unit but have been taken off ventilators, can now breathe on their own and are being bottle-fed. (Mark Henle/The Arizona Republic via AP)

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Camille Baudinet, one of a set of quintuplets recently born, rests at the St. Joseph's Nursery Intensive Care Unit, Wednesday, Dec, 21, 2016, in Phoenix. Margaret Baudinet gave birth on Dec. 4 to four girls and one boy. The quintuplets remain in an intensive care unit but have been taken off ventilators, can now breathe on their own and are being bottle-fed. (Mark Henle/The Arizona Republic via AP)

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Luke Baudinet, one of a set of quintuplets recently born, rests at the St. Joseph's Nursery Intensive Care Unit, Wednesday, Dec, 21, 2016, in Phoenix. Margaret Baudinet gave birth on Dec. 4 to four girls and one boy. The quintuplets remain in an intensive care unit but have been taken off ventilators, can now breathe on their own and are being bottle-fed. (Mark Henle/The Arizona Republic via AP)

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Clara Baudinet, one of a set of quintuplets recently born, rests at the St. Joseph's Nursery Intensive Care Unit, Wednesday, Dec, 21, 2016, in Phoenix. Margaret Baudinet gave birth on Dec. 4 to four girls and one boy. The quintuplets remain in an intensive care unit but have been taken off ventilators, can now breathe on their own and are being bottle-fed. (Mark Henle/The Arizona Republic via AP)

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Margaret Baudinet, right, is congratulated on the birth of her quintuplets by Santa Claus, Wednesday, Dec, 21, 2016, at the St. Joseph's Nursery Intensive Care Unit in Phoenix. Looking on is Margaret's husband, Michael Baudinet. Margaret Baudinet gave birth on Dec. 4 to four girls and one boy. (Mark Henle/The Arizona Republic via AP)

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President-elect Donald Trump, center, accompanied by Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, right, and retired Gen. Michael Flynn, a senior adviser to Trump, left, speaks to members of the media at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

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FILE - These undated file combination photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections shows death row inmates Ronald Phillips and Raymond Tibbetts. Ohio Gov. John Kasich turned down Phillips' request for mercy on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. Phillips is scheduled for execution on Feb. 15, 2017. Kasich also granted a short reprieve to death row inmate Tibbetts, scheduled to die in February but now set for April 12. (AP Photo/Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation and Corrections, File)

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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, DEC. 24 - FILE - In this March 3, 2006, file photo, Brendan Dassey, is escorted out of a Manitowoc County Circuit courtroom in Manitowoc, Wis. A federal magistrate judge had ruled in August that investigators coerced Brendan Dassey, who was 16 years old at the time and suffered from cognitive problems, into confessing. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in the slaying of photographer Teresa Halbach. He had told detectives he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill Halbach at the Avery family salvage yard in Manitowoc County. Dassey's release appeared imminent until the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago stepped in at the last minute and decided to keep Dassey behind bars while state attorneys appealed a decision which overturned his conviction.(AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, DEC. 24 - FILE - This file photo provided by the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office shows Milwaukee police officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown. In August, a north side Milwaukee neighborhood erupted in violence following the police shooting of a young black man, Sylville Smith. Smith's death was the match that lit two nights of violence which left eight businesses burned, other properties looted and several officers and civilians injured. In a rare move, the officer that killed Smith, Dominique Heaggan-Brown, was charged in December with first-degree reckless homicide. (Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)

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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, DEC. 24 - FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Milwaukee County Sheriff shows Sylville Smith. In August, a north side Milwaukee neighborhood erupted in violence following the police shooting of a young black man, Sylville Smith. Smith's death was the match that lit two nights of violence which left eight businesses burned, other properties looted and several officers and civilians injured. In a rare move, the officer that killed Smith, Dominique Heaggan-Brown, was charged in December with first-degree reckless homicide. (Milwaukee County Sheriff via AP, File)

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FILE - In this May 7, 2014, file photo, Rene Lima-Marin sits for an interview with The Associated Press about the circumstances of his sentencing and incarceration in a meeting room inside Kit Carson Correctional Center, a privately operated prison in Burlington, Colo. Lima-Marin, who was sent back to prison after being mistakenly released 90 years early, says it was cruel and unusual punishment to put him back behind bars after he reformed his life. A judge is considering on Wednesday, Dec. 21, whether to free Lima-Marin who is arguing that it would be unfair to keep him behind bars after he started a family and held a steady job after his accidental release in 2008. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)