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David Renz stands in Judge Thomas Miller's courtroom for sentencing on Friday, May 16, 2014 in Syracuse, N.Y. Renz, 30, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for raping a girl and killing her mother after cutting off his ankle monitor last year. Renz admitted when he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder that he carjacked the woman and her 10-year-old daughter on March 14, 2013. Renz stabbed and strangled the mother as she tried to stop him from raping her daughter. He had been under federal monitoring on child pornography charges but cut off his ankle device. (AP Photo/The Syracuse Newspapers, David Lassman) MANDATORY CREDIT NO SALES MAGS OUT
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David Renz enters Judge Thomas Miller's courtroom for sentencing on Friday, May 16, 2014 in Syracuse, N.Y. Renz, 30, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for raping a girl and killing her mother after cutting off his ankle monitor last year. Renz admitted when he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder that he carjacked the woman and her 10-year-old daughter on March 14, 2013. Renz stabbed and strangled the mother as she tried to stop him from raping her daughter. He had been under federal monitoring on child pornography charges but cut off his ankle device. (AP Photo/The Syracuse Newspapers, David Lassman) MANDATORY CREDIT NO SALES MAGS OUT
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FILE - In this May 16, 2013 file photo, Glenn Poshard, president of Southern Illinois University, testifies during a House Committee hearing on pension legislation at the state Capitol in Springfield, Ill. Poshard has been active in Illinois’ public affairs for more than 30 years as a U.S. congressman, state senator, Democratic candidate for governor and, most recently, president of the Southern Illinois University system. Newly retired but serving as a consultant to his successor as SIU’s president, the 68-year-old Murphysboro man shared with The Associated Press his thoughts on the nexus of higher education and states’ troubled finances. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
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In this May 8, 2014 photo, a scrapbook kept by author Pat Conroy's father Donald is displayed at the University of South Carolina's library in Columbia, SC. Conroy is giving the university all of his papers including handwritten manuscripts, journals and even his divorce papers. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
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ASHLEY DUPREE - She became a public figure when it was disclosed that she was the woman at the center of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal forcing the NY Governor to resign.
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Modern technology may compromise basic freedoms, says Logan Delany, citing Donald Sterling's loss of his L.A. Clippers after V. Stiviano publicized recordings of racist remarks made in private. (AP Photo/Danny Moloshok)
