Law_Crime

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Maureen McDonnell's lawyers have asked for probation and a sentence of 4,000 hours of community service, arguing that there is no greater punishment that can be levied on her than the effect the case has had on her family. (Associated Press)

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Executive Director Kathleen Taylor speaks at a news conference announcing a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington to make sure public hospitals are following the state's abortion rights law, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, in Seattle. The ACLU said it is suing one public hospital district Skagit Regional Health and sending warning letters to three others over what it considers violations of the law. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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Airline passenger Tom Reichert waits in the lobby of the new Transportation Security Administration application site at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Mich., Feb. 19, 2015. Reichert was preparing to sign up for an expedited screening program that allows travelers to leave on their shoes, light outerwear and belt, keep their laptop in its case and have permitted liquids in a carry-on. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) ** FILE **

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Joanne Chesimard, member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, leaves Middlesex County courthouse in New Brunswick, N.J. on April 25, 1977. Now known as Assata Shakur, Chesimard was convicted in 1977 of killing a New Jersey state trooper four years earlier, and was sentenced to life in prison but escaped and wound up in Cuba in the 1980s where she continues to reside. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, left, is depicted beside U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr., right, as O'Toole addresses a pool of potential jurors in a jury assembly room at the federal courthouse, in Boston, in this Jan. 5, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins, File)

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"The district court's order was abundantly clear: The federal court enjoined any and all aspects of the illegal amnesty order," said Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican. "If the Department of Homeland Security continues moving forward, that on its face is in violation of a federal court injunction." (Associated Press)

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Aleksander Robin Tomaszewski, who claimed he was assaulted by police officers, has been found guilty of attempted coercion and initiating a false report after he was caught on video punching himself in the face more than 40 times in an Oregon holding cell. (YouTube/Eugene Register-Guard)

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A small fire was set to the New Shiloh Christian Church in Melbourne, Florida, and the Arabic phrase "Allahu Akbar" was spray-painted on one of its walls early Monday morning in what church members are calling a possible hate crime. (WKMG Local 6)

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Terrence Lavaron Thomas, 39, was arrested in Detroit Saturday after he allegedly stabbed two men at a bus stop when they told him they weren't Muslim. (Southfield Police Department via Detroit Free Press)

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Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is ceasing preparations for a program designed to shield millions of immigrants from deportation as a result of a federal court ruling issued late Monday. Mr. Johnson said his agency will work to protect parents of U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents while the legal process continues. (Associated Press)