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FILE - In this June 9, 2011 file photo, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich pauses as he talks with reporters at the Federal Court building after the judge handed the case to the jury in his corruption trial in Chicago. Jurors deliberating in Blagojevich's corruption trial told a judge on Monday, June 27, 2011, that they have reached a verdict on 18 of the 20 counts against him, and attorneys in the case have agreed that the verdict should be read. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) (AP)

The inner lives of shoplifters

James "Whitey" Bulger (AP)

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An FBI agent holds an evidence bag outside an apartment complex where fugitive crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger and his longtime companion Catherine Greig were arrested in Santa Monica, Calif., Thursday, June 23, 2011. The Boston mob boss was captured near Los Angeles after 16 years on the run that embarrassed the FBI and exposed the bureau's corrupt relationship with its underworld informants. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) (AP)

FILE - This is an undated handout file photo the FBI released in this Dec. 30, 1998 showing reputed Boston mobster and fugitive James J. "Whitey" Bulger. Bulger, a notorious Boston gangster on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list for his alleged role in 19 murders, has been captured near Los Angeles after living on the run for 16 years, authorities said Wednesday June 22, 2011. (AP Photo/FBI Handout, File) (AP)

Mike Barnicle. Inset: A mugshot of Whitey Bulger

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FILE - In these 1984 file photos originally released by the FBI, New England organized crime figure James "Whitey" Bulger is shown. Bulger, a notorious Boston gangster on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list for his alleged role in 19 murders, has been captured near Los Angeles after living on the run for 16 years, authorities said Wednesday June 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Federal Bureau of Investigation, File) (AP)

Greg Risling, Brian Melley

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Is it time to bring back flogging?

Mandy Van Deven

Michael Winship

Law enforcement officials are on the scene of a home in Hardin, Texas Tuesday, June 7, 2011, after receiving an anonymous tip that multiple dismembered bodies were buried there. A sheriff's spokesman said officials were seeking a search warrant for the property. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Nick de la Torre) (AP)

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FILE In this Jan. 14, 2009 file photo, Johannes Mehserle, left, talks with his attorney Christopher Miller in the East Fork Justice Court in Minden, Nev. Mehserle, a former San Francisco Bay area transit officer in jail for fatally shooting an unarmed man is expected to be released next week after serving 11 months of a two-year sentence. Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Teresa Drenick said Thursday that 29-year-old Johannes Mehserle will be released from a Los Angeles County jail Monday. A jury convicted the ex-Bay Area Rapid Transit officer last year of involuntary manslaughter for killing Oscar Grant on an Oakland train station platform New Year's Day 2009. (AP Photo/Cathleen Allison, file) (AP)

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The great impostor

This image provided by KPRC-TV shows authorities at a rural house after receiving a tip that multiple dismembered bodies are buried there, in Liberty County, Texas, Tuesday, June 7, 2011. (AP Photo/KPRC-TV) MANDATORY CREDIT (AP)

Former Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic drinks water in the court room during his initial appearance at the U.N.'s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, June 3, 2011. Mladic's appearance Friday at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague is his first public appearance since he went into hiding nearly 16 years ago, when he was indicted for genocide and war crimes committed in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. (AP Photo/ Martin Meissner, Pool) (AP)

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Lewis Morris, general counsel for the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general, poses for a portrait in his office in Washington, Thursday, May 26, 2011. Its getting personal now. In a shift still evolving, federal enforcers are targeting individual executives in health care fraud cases that used to be aimed at impersonal corporations. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP)

Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar

Milos Saljic, the lawyer of Ratko Mladic, talks to the media in front of the Special Court in Belgrade, Serbia, early morning Tuesday, May 31, 2011. As he awaited extradition to a U.N. tribunal, jailed war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic was allowed on Tuesday to visit the grave of his daughter who committed suicide during Bosnia's war. Mladic left his jail cell to make the early morning visit under tight security, including several armored vehicles, said Serbia's deputy war crimes prosecutor, Bruno Vekaric. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic) (AP)

Dusan Stojanovic, Jovana Gec

A Bosnian Serb man holds a photo of former Gen. Ratko Mladic during a protest in Kalinovik, Bosnia, hometown of the Bosnian Serb wartime military leader, 70 kms southeast of Sarajevo, Sunday, May 29, 2011. Approximately 3,000 Bosnian Serbs, gathered to show support and anger after the arrest of Mladic. Protestors carried banners and flags and sang songs in his support, he was arrested after 16 years in hiding from the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague. Mladic is to face trial on 15 accounts of war crimes including genocide in Srebrenica in 1995. (AP Photo/Amel Emric) (AP)

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Bosnian Serb people holding photos of former Gen. Ratko Mladic during a protest in Kalinovik, Bosnia, hometown of the Bosnian Serb wartime military leader, 70 kms southeast of Sarajevo, Sunday, May 29, 2011. Approximately 3,000 Bosnian Serbs, gathered to show support and anger after the arrest of Mladic. Protestors carried banners and flags and sang songs in his support, he was arrested after 16 years in hiding from the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague. Mladic is to face trial on 15 accounts of war crimes including genocide in Srebrenica in 1995. (AP Photo/Amel Emric) (AP)

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In this photo provided by the Politika Newspaper, Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who was arrested Thursday, May 26, 2011, in Serbia after years in hiding. Genocide suspect Ratko Mladic in due in a Belgrade court for a hearing which is a legal step toward his extradition to a U.N. war crimes tribunal. Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive was arrested Thursday in a northern Serbian village after 16 years on the run. The hearing is set for noon (1000 GMT) Friday, May 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Politika Newspaper) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

Dusan Stojanovic, Jovana Gec

In this handout image released by the Serbian government Thursday, May 26, 2011, Ratko Mladic enters court in Belgrade, Thursday, May 26, 2011. Ratko Mladic, in baseball cap, the ruthless Bosnian Serb military leader charged with orchestrating Europe's worst massacre of civilians since World War II, was arrested before dawn at a relative's home in a tiny Serbian village on Thursday after a 16-year hunt for the architect of what a war-crimes judge called "scenes from hell." (AP Photo / Serbian Government, HANDOUT) (AP)

FILE In this Jan. 20, 2002 photo, a Bosnian couple passes by a poster of Bosnia's two most wanted war crimes suspects, the leader of Bosnian Serbs Radovan Karadzic and his war time commander Gen. Ratko Mladic, in Sarajevo. Mladic, Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive, has been arrested in Serbia, the country's president said Thursday, May 26, 2011. Mladic has been on the run since 1995 when he was indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, for genocide in the slaughter of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica and other crimes committed by his troops during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. (AP Photo/Sava Radovanovic) (AP)

FILE In this June 28, 1996 file photo Bosnian Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic, center, smiles as he visits troops to mark both the fourth anniversary of the founding of his Bosnian Serb army and St. Vitus' Day, the anniversary of the Serb defeat by the Turks at Kosovo in 1389, near the village of Han Pijesak, some 40 miles east of Sarajevo. Belgrade media reports Thursday May 26, 2011 that a man suspected to be Europe's most wanted war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic has been arrested in Serbia. Serbia state TV said a man who identified himself as Milorad Komadic when he was arrested Thursday is the wartime Bosnian Serb army commander. It gave no other details. (AP Photo) (AP)

Dusan Stojanovic

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