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This undated photo released by the Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office, shows Jessica Jauch. Pulled over for traffic violations, Jauch was held for 96 days in a Mississippi jail in 2012, on a felony drug charge, without seeing a judge, getting a lawyer or having a chance to make bail, even though a police video showed she committed no crime. She wasn’t cleared until she finally got a lawyer who persuaded a prosecutor to watch the video and drop the charge. When Jauch sued, alleging violations of her rights, a federal judge dismissed her case against the county and a sheriff, ruling none of her constitutional and legal rights were violated. The outcome has flummoxed civil liberties advocates who have been waging legal battles to reform Mississippi’s criminal justice system, which provides almost no state funding for public defenders. (Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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This photo released by Fairbanks Police Department shows Anthony George Jenkins-Alexie. The 29-year-old man was arrested in a shooting that left an Alaska police officer seriously injured. Jenkins-Alexie, of Fairbanks, is facing charges of attempted murder, assault and other counts in connection with the shooting early Sunday of Sgt. Allen Brandt. (Fairbanks Police Department via AP)
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Bernie Sanders addresses a Clinton-Kaine rally inside the Prochnow Auditorium at Northern Arizona University, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Many political observers believe that traditionally Republican Arizona is in play for this election. (Tom Tingle/The Arizona Republic via AP)
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FILE — In this June 5, 2016 photo, Hawaii County Mayor Billy Kenoi, left, attends ceremonies to welcome the Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hokulea in New York. Attorneys are expected to deliver their opening statements in Hawaii County Mayor Billy Kenoi's felony theft trial. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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In this Sept. 6, 2016 file photo, Bill Cosby arrives for a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Prosecutors in suburban Philadelphia are accusing Cosby’s lawyers of stretching the truth as they try again to get a sexual-assault case against him thrown out. The two sides have filed dueling legal briefs before a key pretrial hearing next month. The Nov. 1 hearing could determine if the case moves forward and if more accusers testify. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) **FILE**
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Arizona Dept. of Public Safety officers work at the scene of a seven-vehicle, chain-reaction collision that closed Interstate-10 westbound north of Tucson, Ariz. on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. (Rick Wiley/Arizona Daily Star via AP)
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In this Jan. 24, 2015, file photo, Harry Shearer appears at the 30th annual TEC Awards during the 2015 National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) show in Anaheim, Calif. (Photo by Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP, File)
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Robert Todd Wiley, 63, a New Hampshire English teacher alleged to have asked for sexually inappropriate images from a 16 year old student. Image from a screen capture of a NECN news story about the arrest. [http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Police-NH-High-School-Teacher-Solicited-Naked-Photos-From-Student-Merrimack-Robert-Todd-Wiley-397347561.html]
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Ray Tensing enters Judge Megan Shanahan's courtroom for his pre-trial hearing on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, in Cincinnati. The former University of Cincinnati police officer is charged with killing Sam DuBose, an unarmed black man during a traffic stop over a missing front license plate. (Amanda Rossmann/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, Pool)
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In this Aug. 9, 2016, photo, U.S. Attorney Damon Martinez speaks to reporters from his desk in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Martinez and the U.S. Justice Department announced an agreement with the University of New Mexico on Monday, Oct. 17, to improve how the school responds to student complaints of sexual assault and harassment. (AP Photo/Mary Hudetz)
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U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks before audience at Northrup Auditorium at the University of Minnesota on Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, in Minneapolis. Sotomayor said the high court continues to deeply feel the loss of Justice Antonin Scalia. (Renee Jones Schneider/Star Tribune via AP)
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Illustration on one vote Supreme Court decisions by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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In this Oct. 17, 1966 photo, Fire Department of New York firefighters stand at attention as the caskets of fallen firefighters are brought to a New York church for funeral services after a blaze that began on Oct. 17, 1966 in the basement of a business on Manhattan's East 23rd St. killed 12 firefighters. The blaze fifty years ago remained the deadliest day in FDNY's history, until the department lost 343 members on Sept. 11, 2001. (Fire Department of New York via AP)
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Speaking of assault. (Illustration by Michael Ramirez for Creators Syndicate)
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FILE - Joseph Boeckmann is shown in this 2004 photo provided by the Wynne Progress. Boeckmann, a former Arkansas judge accused of giving lighter sentences to defendants in exchange for nude photos and sexual acts, has been indicted on federal fraud and bribery charges, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. (Wynne Progress via AP, File)
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Police officers line up as a protest grows outside the Morton County Courthouse in Mandan, N.D., Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. A judge dismissed a complaint Monday against Democracy Now journalist Amy Goodman, who reported on a clash between pipeline protesters and private security in September. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
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Crime scene investigators shield themselves from rain under a tarp Sunday, Oct. 16, 2016 ,as they work at a home where two men and one woman were found dead the night before, in Sacramento, Calif. Police in Sacramento said victims suffered traumatic injuries and that their killings were not random acts of crime. (Renee C. Byer/The Sacramento Bee via AP)
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In this Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 photo, the exterior of the police station is shown in the town of Nederland, Colo. The U.S. attorney's office in Colorado officially confirmed Monday that a California man was arrested in connection with a homemade explosive left outside the police station in Netherlands. (AP Photo/Sadie Gurman)
