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In this Dec. 9, 2016 photo, producer and director Martin Scorsese poses for a portrait in New York. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)
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In this Dec. 9, 2016 photo, producer and director Martin Scorsese poses for a portrait in New York. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)
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About 200 participate in a rally to support the victim of an alleged sexual assault that led to the suspension of 10 football players, outside TCF Bank Stadium at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn., on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016. The team had threatened a boycott of the upcoming Holiday Bowl to protest the suspension of their teammates who were allegedly involved in the September encounter with the woman. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP)
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Former New England Patriots NFL football player Aaron Hernandez appears with defense attorney Jose Baez during a hearing at Suffolk Superior Court, Tuesday, Dec, 20, 2016, in Boston. Hernandez, who is serving a life sentence for the 2013 killing of Odin Lloyd, is charged in the 2012 slayings of two men outside a Boston nightclub. (Angela Rowlings/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool)
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Bernalillo County District Attorney-elect Raul Torrez unveils plans in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, for an independent review of the case involving two former Albuquerque police officers accused in the shooting death of a mentally ill homeless man in a 2014 standoff. Torrez said the review will be done by an independent team of prosecutors from around the state and a recommendation is expected early next year. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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Bernalillo County District Attorney-elect Raul Torrez unveils plans in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, for an independent review of the case involving two former Albuquerque police officers accused in the shooting death of a mentally ill homeless man in a 2014 standoff. Torrez said the review will be done by an independent team of prosecutors from around the state and a recommendation is expected early next year. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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Bernalillo County District Attorney-elect Raul Torrez unveils plans in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016 for an independent review of the case involving two former Albuquerque police officers accused in the shooting death of a mentally ill homeless man in a 2014 standoff. Torrez said the review will be done by an independent team of prosecutors from around the state and a recommendation is expected early next year. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota holds a metal bar which was removed from a limousine in July 2015 after it was involved in a fatal accident, at news conference in Riverhead, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016. A special grand jury empaneled after a limousine crash killed four women leaving a New York winery has issued a report calling for better safety regulations for stretch limousines. (AP Photo/Michael Balsamo)
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FILE - In this July 18, 2015, file photo, authorities investigate the scene of a fatal crash between a limousine and sports utility vehicle in Cutchogue, N.Y. A special grand jury empaneled after the fatal crash that killed four women in the limousine as it was leaving a New York winery has issued a report calling for better safety regulations for stretch limousines. The report said cars converted into limos often lack safety components, like side-impact airbags, reinforced rollover protection bars and accessible emergency exits, that are required in smaller vehicles. (Randee Daddona/Newsday via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2008, file photo a Volkswagen Jetta TDI diesel engine is displayed at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Volkswagen is facing a deadline of Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, to tell a federal judge in San Francisco whether it has reached a deal with U.S. regulators and attorneys for car owners on the remaining 80,000 diesel vehicles that cheated on emissions tests. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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FILE - In this Monday, May 30, 2016 file photo, police work at the scene where a man was fatally shot in the chest in Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood. The city recorded its first fatal gunshot victim just a few hours into 2016. Month after month, the numbers mounted. More than 100 homicides in January and February. Around Labor Day, another milestone: 500 deaths. By mid-December, Chicago had recorded about 740 homicides. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 5, 2016 file photo, a man holds a woman at the scene of a double shooting in Ogden Park in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Thirteen people were shot to death over the Labor Day weekend in Chicago. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., poses for a portrait at his congressional office in Chicago on Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. As a congressman, Davis can debate the need for gun control from a public policy perspective.But as a grandfather, he can't make sense of the death of his 15-year-old grandson, Javon Wilson, who was shot last month at his South Side home in a fight over clothes and gym shoes. A 16-year-old boy and 17-year-old girl have been charged with murder. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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In this Nov. 29, 2016 photo, Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is shown while meeting with Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. A failed voting fraud prosecution from more than 30 years ago is likely to re-emerge as a contentious issue during Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing for attorney general. The 1985 prosecution involved three black civil rights activists accused of tampering with large numbers of absentee ballots in rural Perry County, Alabama. The defendants argued that they were assisting voters who were poor and uneducated. They were acquitted within hours. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
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Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette addresses a news conference, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016 in Flint, Mich., where he charged two former State of Michigan Emergency Managers, Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose, with multiple 20-year felonies for their failure to protect the citizens of Flint from health hazards cased by contaminated drinking water. Schuette also charged Earley, Ambrose and Flint city employees Howard Croft and Daugherty Johnson with felony counts of false pretenses and conspiracy to commit false pretenses in the issuance of bonds to pay for a portion of the water project that led to the crisis. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Flint, Mich., Mayor Karen Weaver listens as Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette addresses a news conference, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016 in Flint, Mich., where he charged two former State of Michigan Emergency Managers, Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose, with multiple 20-year felonies for their failure to protect the citizens of Flint from health hazards cased by contaminated drinking water. Schuette also charged Earley, Ambrose and Flint city employees Howard Croft and Daugherty Johnson with felony counts of false pretenses and conspiracy to commit false pretenses in the issuance of bonds to pay for a portion of the water project that led to the crisis. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette addresses a news conference, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, in Flint, Mich., where he charged two former State of Michigan Emergency Managers, Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose, with multiple 20-year felonies for their failure to protect the citizens of Flint from health hazards cased by contaminated drinking water. Schuette also charged Earley, Ambrose and Flint city employees Howard Croft and Daugherty Johnson with felony counts of false pretenses and conspiracy to commit false pretenses in the issuance of bonds to pay for a portion of the water project that led to the crisis. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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A woman is illuminated by candles as she cries in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, the day after a truck ran into a crowded Christmas market nearby and killed several people. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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FILE - This Nov. 3, 2016 file photo shows a photograph of University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing and his body camera footage which was presented on the second day of witness testimony in the courtroom of Common Pleas Judge Megan Shanahan at the Hamilton County Courthouse, in Cincinnati. The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit brought by several news organizations arguing that video footage from police bodycams is a public record that should be released on request. The court on Tuesday, Dec. 20 unanimously denied the request since the video was released two days after the request. The bodycam footage involved the 2015 fatal shooting of a black motorist by Tensing, a white University of Cincinnati officer.(Cara Owsley/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP, Pool, File)
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FILE - This September 2016 file photo provided by the Union County Prosecutor's Office shows Ahmad Khan Rahimi. A federal prosecutor on Monday, Dec. 19, said the government won't introduce at trial a lengthy statement from Rahimi, charged with setting off bombs in New York and New Jersey, in order to keep to a scheduled trial date in March. (Union County Prosecutor's Office via AP, File)
