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FILE - In this April 19, 2018 file photo, State District Court Judge Ralph Strother leaves his courtroom at the McLennan County Courthouse in Waco, Texas. Judge Strother who accepted a plea deal allowing a former Baylor University student accused of rape to avoid jail time holds three degrees from Baylor. The District Attorney overseeing the case holds two Baylor degrees. The prosecutor who proposed the plea agreement graduated from Baylor law school. (Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune-Herald via AP File)
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Baylor ties pervade rape case that sparked uproar
FILE - In this April 19, 2018 file photo, State District Court Judge Ralph Strother leaves his courtroom at the McLennan County Courthouse in Waco, Texas. Judge Strother who accepted a plea deal allowing a former Baylor University student accused of rape to avoid jail time holds three degrees from Baylor. The District Attorney overseeing the case holds two Baylor degrees. The prosecutor who proposed the plea agreement graduated from Baylor law school. (Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune-Herald via AP File)
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  • FILE - In this April 19, 2018 file photo, State District Court Judge Ralph Strother leaves his courtroom at the McLennan County Courthouse in Waco, Texas. Judge Strother who accepted a plea deal allowing a former Baylor University student accused of rape to avoid jail time holds three degrees from Baylor. The District Attorney overseeing the case holds two Baylor degrees. The prosecutor who proposed the plea agreement graduated from Baylor law school. (Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune-Herald via AP File)
  • FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2018 file photo the Camp Fire rages through Paradise, Calif. Insurance claims from last month's California wildfires already are at $9 billion and expected to increase, the state's insurance commissioner announced Wednesday, Dec. 12. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
  • FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2018, file photo, Leslie McCrae Dowless Jr., poses for a portrait outside his home in Bladenboro, N.C. State investigators have described Dowless as a “person of interest” in their probe into 2018 voting irregularities involving absentee ballots. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP, File)
  • A Honduran migrant boy tries to buy cotton candy from a vendor, but doesn't have enough money, as migrants visit the U.S. border wall to look for opportunities to cross, at the beach in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many Central American migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall illegally and hand themselves in to Border Patrol agents to request asylum. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
  • FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2016, file photo, a U.S. Border Patrol agent patrols Sunland Park along the U.S.-Mexico border next to Ciudad Juarez. A 7-year-old girl who had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with her father, died after being taken into the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol, federal immigration authorities confirmed Thursday, Dec. 13. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras, File)
  • This Aug. 13, 2018 file photo provided by the Pinellas County, Fla., Sheriff's Office shows Michael Drejka. Drejka is accused of fatally shooting an unarmed black man in a parking lot dispute in July. The case ignited Florida's "stand your ground law." During a hearing Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, a judge set the trial date for Aug. 19, 2019. (Pinellas, Fla., County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
  • CORRECTS NAME TO JOSEY VISNOVSKE, INSTEAD OF GEOSIE VISNOVSKI Nick Williams, left, brother of Mike Williams, the man who was shot and killed by his best friend 18 years ago, Cheryl Williams, center, mother of Mike Williams, along side family friend Josey Visnovske, cry tears of joy for a the guilty verdicts in the trial against Denise Williams, Mike's former wife, Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. (Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat via AP, Pool)
  • This Nov. 28, 2018 photo provided by the United States Attorney's Office and introduced as evidence in court in Honolulu shows some of hundreds of shark fins seized from a Japanese fishing boat. U.S. prosecutors in Hawaii accuse the owner and officers of the Japanese fishing boat of helping Indonesian fishermen smuggle nearly 1,000 shark fins. Hamada Suisan Co. Ltd., the Japanese business that owned the vessel, and JF Zengyoren, a Japanese fishing cooperative, were charged on Dec. 11, 2018, with aiding and abetting the trafficking and smuggling of shark fins. (U.S. Attorney's Office via AP)
  • This Nov. 28, 2018 photo provided by the United States Attorney's Office and introduced as evidence in court in Honolulu shows some of hundreds of shark fins seized from a Japanese fishing boat. U.S. prosecutors in Hawaii accuse the owner and officers of the Japanese fishing boat of helping Indonesian fishermen smuggle nearly 1,000 shark fins. Hamada Suisan Co. Ltd., the Japanese business that owned the vessel, and JF Zengyoren, a Japanese fishing cooperative, were charged on Dec. 11, 2018, with aiding and abetting the trafficking and smuggling of shark fins. (U.S. Attorney's Office via AP)
  • In this Oct. 23, 2018, file photo, Borey Ai poses for a photo at the Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco. Ai spent 19 years in prison before parole officials decided he'd turned his life around and he walked out of San Quentin in Nov. 2016 and into the waiting arms of federal immigration agents. In a rare step, the California Supreme Court has blocked Gov. Jerry Brown's attempt to issue a pardon to a 37-year-old man Cambodian refugee facing deportation for killing and robbing a woman when he was 14 years old. The court offered no public explanation for its rejection on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018 of Borey Ai's pardon. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
  • FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2010, file photo, a natural gas line lies broken on a San Bruno, Calif., road after a massive explosion. The California Public Utilities Commission said Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, that an investigation by its staff found Pacific Gas & Electric Co. lacked enough employees to fulfill requests to find and mark natural gas pipelines. A U.S. judge fined the utility $3 million after it was convicted of six felony charges for failing to properly maintain a natural gas pipeline that exploded south of San Francisco in 2010, killing eight people. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
  • FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2010, file photo, a natural gas line lies broken on a San Bruno, Calif., road after a massive explosion. The California Public Utilities Commission said Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, that an investigation by its staff found Pacific Gas & Electric Co. lacked enough employees to fulfill requests to find and mark natural gas pipelines. A U.S. judge fined the utility $3 million after it was convicted of six felony charges for failing to properly maintain a natural gas pipeline that exploded south of San Francisco in 2010, killing eight people. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
  • FILE - In this undated file photo, Woodland Park Police Chief Miles De Young answers questions about the disappearance of resident Kelsey Berreth, 29, while her mother, Cheryl Berreth, stands in the background during a news conference at City Hall in Woodland Park, Colo. Colorado police say they are searching the property of the missing woman's fiance. The search of Patrick Frazee's property began Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, about three weeks after the 29-year-old was last seen. Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP, File)
  • FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2018 file photo, inmates walk across the grounds of the Idaho State Correctional Institution in Kuna, Idaho. Idaho transgender inmate Adree Edmo has spent most of her prison term at this men's prison facility. A federal judge ruled Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018 that the state must provide Edmo with gender confirmation surgery to make her physical characteristics match her gender identity as a woman." (AP Photo/Rebecca Boone, File)
  • In this Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018 photo, senior animal sciences major Massimo Montalbano, and Amelia, a three year old cow, right, walk on the campus of University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. Montalbano, brought the towering dairy cow Amelia to join his commencement photo shoot. Montalbano worked with cattle throughout his undergraduate studies with the university's Foremost Dairy Research Center. (Liv Paggiarino/Missourian via AP)
  • In this file photo from Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, firefighter Adrien Mahnke pauses while battling the Camp Fire as it tears through Paradise, Calif. A report on firefighter injuries in a deadly Northern California wildfire details harrowing conditions they faced and a few close calls with death. The report released Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018 by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said the Camp Fire overtook three firefighters trying to set a backfire Nov. 8 to stop the blaze. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
  • This Friday, Dec. 14, 2018 photo, shows the interior of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Chicago. The 120-year-old Chicago church was saved from auction after a midnight call from a group of donors, which one church official said was "a Christmas miracle." (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune via AP)
  • Families are reunited with their children at the Civic Hall Performing Arts Center where students waited after being bussed from Dennis Intermediate School following a shooting, Thursday, Dec. 13 2018, in Richmond, Ind. (Jordan Kartholl/The Palladium-Item via AP)
  • FILE - In this March 24, 2018 file photo, Yolanda Renee King, grand daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., left, accompanied by Jaclyn Corin, right, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and one of the organizers of the rally, speaks during the "March for Our Lives" rally in support of gun control in Washington. Corin who survived the school shooting massacre and co-founded the "March For Our Lives" gun-reform movement has been accepted to Harvard. The senior student Corin posted a photo of her admissions notice on Instagram on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
  • This photo provided by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency shows Navy Seaman 2nd Class Charles C. Gomez, Jr., 19, of Slidell, Louisiana, killed during World War II, and was accounted for on Sept. 19, 2018. On Dec. 7, 1941, Gomez was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Gomez. (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency via AP)
  • Community members hold a candlelight vigil for Kelsey Berreth under the gazebo of Memorial Park in Woodland Park, Colo., on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. Berreth was last seen on Thanksgiving Day, captured on surveillance video entering a grocery store with what appears to be her 1-year-old daughter in a baby carrier. Weeks later, investigators don't know what happened to the 29-year-old Colorado mother. (Kelsey Brunner/The Gazette via AP)
  • Johnny Bobbitt stands during a hearing Burlington County Courthouse in Mt. Holly, N.J. on Friday Dec. 14, 2018. Bobbitt will be released from county jail and live in his apartment in Philadelphia. Prosecutors say Bobbitt conspired with Katelyn McClure and her former boyfriend, Mark D'Amico, to concoct a feel-good story about Bobbitt giving McClure his last $20 when her car ran out of gas. They raised $400,000, which authorities say was spent on luxury items and casino trips. (David Swanson /The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, Pool)
  • UNC System Board of Governors Harry Smith discusses with reporters in Chapel Hill, N. C., the rejection of a plan to build a $5.3 million structure to house a toppled confederate monument at the state’s flagship university. The board voted Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, to take more time to study what to do with the statue known as “Silent Sam.” (AP Photo/Jonathan Drew)
  • This undated photo released by the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office shows Charles Toney. An attorney for the 25-year old says hospital records prove he suffered a collapsed lung and fractured ribs, nose and finger during his arrest on an outstanding warrant on Dec. 3, 2018. But the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018 that medical staff who checked Toney after his arrest found none of those injuries. (Hamilton County Sheriff's Office via AP)
  • File-This Nov. 27, 2018, file photo shows Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda Md. Two Maryland congressmen say Navy officials are taking steps to correct deficiencies that wrongly led to reports of an active shooter at Walter Reed National Medical Center outside Washington last month. Reps. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger and Jamie Raskin released a statement Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, after meeting with Navy officials this week. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
  • File - In this March 23, 2015 file photo, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye delivers her annual State of the Judiciary address before a joint session of the Legislature at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. The chief justice of the California Supreme Court says concerns about increasing polarization in the country prompted her to give up her Republican Party affiliation. Cantil-Sakauye said in a telephone interview on Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, that she switched her voter registration to no party preference after the confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. But she said she had been considering the move for several years. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
  • File-This Oct. 4, 2017, file photo shows Augustus Standingrock appearing in Missoula District Court, where he pleaded not guilty to felonies for deliberate homicide and accountability for deliberate homicide in the deaths of Marilyn Pickett and Jackson Wiles. The Montana man pleaded guilty Friday, Dec. 14, 2018, to stabbing two people to death, including a teenage girl, dismembering their bodies and then trying to dissolve them in tubs filled with acid in the basement of a home. (Tom Bauer/The Missoulian via AP, File)
  • FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, file photo, police stand guard after the Confederate statue known as Silent Sam was toppled by protesters on campus at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. The board overseeing North Carolina’s public universities is meeting to decide the fate of "Silent Sam." The University of North Carolina System Board of Governors was meeting Friday, Dec. 14, to discuss a proposal to build a $5 million building to house the statue at UNC-Chapel Hill. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
  • This Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018 booking photo providing by McKinley County Adult Detention Center shows Shayanne Nelson. Nelson's 8-month-old girl is fighting for her life after police say her 3-year-old brother accidentally shot her in the face Saturday in a Gallup, N.M., motel room while Nelson and her boyfriend Tyrell Bitsilly were in a shower. Nelson and Bitsilly face child abuse charges. (McKinley County Adult Detention Center via AP)
  • This screen shot from a video provided by Danielle Shah shows people picking up cash that spilled from an armored truck onto the highway in East Rutherford, N.J., near MetLife Stadium, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. Police say the incident caused multiple crashes as motorists stopped to grab the money from the truck that authorities say apparently had an issue with the locking device on one of its doors. (Danielle Shah/@dbholden417 via AP)
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