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Authorities watch a video of the shooting scene at a news conference on Friday Sept. 30, 2016, in El Cajon, Calif, held to address the killing of Alfred Olango, a Ugandan refugee shot by an El Cajon police officer on Tuesday. The El Cajon police department released video footage of the shooting at the news conference. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
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Raphael and Maribel Martinez comfort their son Andy after a press conference at their lawyer's office, Friday Sept. 30, 2016, in New York. Maribel Martinez has filed a lawsuit against JetBlue Airways for mixing up Andy with another boy and flying him to the wrong city. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Suspended University of Southern California football player Osa Masina attends a hearing at the Matheson Courthouse in Salt Lake City on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. Masina, 19, is accused of assaulting a woman after she passed out following a July party in Utah. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
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Pasadena Police Chief Phillip L. Sanchez, center, listens to officers as Los Angeles County homicide detectives investigate the death of a black man in Pasadena, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. A witness says it occurred after a struggle with police. A sheriff's statement says the death of the unidentified man occurred about 2 a.m. Friday but gives no details. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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Shainie Lindsay is embraced by a friend in front of Orange Grove Gardens in Pasadena as detectives investigate the death of the father of her children, whom she said died after a struggle with police, in Pasadena, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. A sheriff's statement says the death of the unidentified man occurred about 2 a.m. Friday but gives no details. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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FILE- In this April 9, 2016 file photo, Rich Leotta, the father of police officer Noah Leotta who died after being hit by a suspected drunk driver while on duty last year, addresses Maryland lawmakers in Annapolis, Md. The face of Noah Leotta will appear on ignition interlock devices installed in the vehicles of Maryland motorists convicted of a DUI. (AP Photo/Brian Witte, File)
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Volunteer Teela Mickles earns a sticker from inmate Andre Johnson after finding something in common during a meet-and-greet exercise on the introductory day of the Defy Ventures program on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, at the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln. The new program is teaching Nebraska convicts how to become entrepreneurs and wage-earners upon their release from prison. The Defy Ventures program currently trains about 1,600 inmates in California and New York. (Kristin Streff/The Journal-Star via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Champaign County Sheriff's Department shows Robbie M. Patton. Patton, the suspect in a deadly weekend shooting at a party near the University of Illinois campus turned himself in Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, at the county jail in Champaign, Ill. Champaign police said in a statement that Patton is in custody. He is expected to be charged with first-degree murder in the Sunday death of George Korchev. (Champaign County Sheriff's Department via AP)
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FILE - This booking photo released March 2, 2016 by the Nottingham, N.H., Police Department shows New Hampshire state Rep. Kyle Tasker. New Hampshire’s attorney general says the Republican former lawmaker charged with trying to lure a 14-year-old girl into a sexual encounter also smoked marijuana in the Statehouse and sold the drug to several other legislators. But the attorney general says there’s insufficient evidence to charge them with drug crimes. Tasker resigned in March after his arrest on three drug charges and a charge of trying to lure a minor for sex. (Nottingham Police Department via AP, File)
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Family and loved ones pay their respects to four siblings who were allegedly killed in their Dearborn Heights home, by Gregory Green, a father to two of the children and a step-father to the two others, before their funeral service at Detroit First Church of the Nazarene in Farmington Hills, Mich., Friday Sept. 30, 2016. (Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP)
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In this Jan. 12, 2016, photo, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl arrives for a pretrial hearing at Fort Bragg, N.C. (AP Photo/Ted Richardson, File)
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In this June 5, 2015, file photo, the Homeland Security Department headquarters in northwest Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby is led from the Tulsa County Sheriff's office into a courtroom in the Tulsa County courthouse, in Tulsa, Okla., Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. Shelby is charged with first degree manslaughter in the Sept. 16, 2016 killing of Terence Crutcher. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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In this Sept. 28, 2016 image taken from video and provided by C-SPAN2, the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington is shown as the Senate acted decisively to override President Barack Obama's veto of Sept. 11 legislation. Although Congress has allowed Sept. 11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia over claims it had a role in the terror attacks, a federal judge has blasted the legal case at the heart of the debate as notoriously weak and full of "largely boilerplate" accusations. And the revised law that passed this week over President Barack Obama's veto gives the Justice Department sweeping authority to put the case on hold and fails to eliminate sovereign immunity from protecting Saudi Arabia assets. (C-SPAN2 via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 1987, file photo, Then Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court Malcolm Lucas, left, is given a congratulatory handshake by Governor George Deukmejian, right, to after being sworn in, while his wife, Joan Lucas, middle, looks on at the Senate Building in San Francisco, Calif. Lucas was sworn in after being nominated for the Chief Justice position by the governor. Former California Supreme Court Chief Justice Malcolm Lucas, who took the court's helm after three justices were voted out during a stormy period in the 1980s, has died. He was 89. Lucas died Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, at home in Los Angeles after battling cancer since early this year, his family said. (AP Photo/Jim Gerberich, File)
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"This is what we put up all the time from the agencies," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. (Associated Press)
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Paula Jones, as seen in 1994 when she alleged sexual harassment by then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton. (AP file image)
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In this Sept. 22, 2016 photo, Virginia businessman Philip Zodhiates leaves U.S. District Court in Buffalo, N.Y., where he was on trial for international parental kidnapping and conspiracy. Zodhiates was convicted of the charges on Thursday, Sept. 29 after prosecutors say he helped a mother move her daughter out of the country and away from her ex-partner. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Tulsa Oklahoma Police Department shows officer Betty Shelby. Police say Tulsa officer Shelby fired the fatal shot that killed Terence Crutcher on Sept. 16, 2016. Shelby's attorney Scott Wood said Thursday, Sept. 29 that she was so hyper-focused on the situation that she didn't hear other officers arrive on the scene or even the deadly gunshot she fired from her handgun. Officer Shelby is expected to enter a not-guilty plea at her arraignment on Friday. (Tulsa Police Department via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 23, 2016 file photo, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach responds to questions outside the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. A federal judge canceled a contempt hearing for Kobach after he agreed Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, to concessions that will fully register and clearly notify thousands of people that they can vote in November.The ruling by U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson comes a day before a hearing had been scheduled for Kobach to show why he should not be held in contempt for allegedly violating her May order. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
