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FILE - In this May 12, 2017, file photo, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca leaves federal court in Los Angeles after he was sentenced to three years in prison for obstructing an FBI investigation into abuses at the jails he ran. Baca's attorneys filed the request with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Monday, July 24, a day before the 74-year-old former sheriff was scheduled to report to prison for a three-year sentence. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, third from left, with his wife, Carol, walk with attorneys, David Hochman, left, and Nathan Hochman, right, outside federal court in Los Angeles Friday, May, 12, 2017. Baca was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for obstructing an FBI investigation into abuses at the jails he ran. The 74-year-old Baca, who is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, was sentenced by a judge who has shown little leniency when it comes to Baca's role atop a department rife with corruption. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca speaks outside federal court in Los Angeles, Calif., Friday, May 12, 2017. Baca was sentenced to three years in prison for obstructing an FBI investigation into abuses at the jails he ran. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, third from left,, with his wife, Carol, left, walks with attorneys, David Hochman, second from left, and Nathan Hochman, fourth from left, as they leave federal court in Los Angeles Friday, May, 12, 2017. Baca was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for obstructing an FBI investigation into abuses at the jails he ran. The 74-year-old Baca, who is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, was sentenced by a judge who has shown little leniency when it comes to Baca's role atop a department rife with corruption. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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FILE - In this March 15, 2017, file photo, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca leaves federal court in Los Angeles. Lee Baca was sentenced Friday, May, 12, 2017, to three years in prison for obstructing an FBI investigation into abuses at the jails he ran. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, center, his wife Carol Chiang and his attorney Nathan Hochman, left, walk towards the federal courthouse in Los Angeles for Baca's sentencing hearing Friday, May 12, 2017. Baca, 74, faces up to 20 years in federal prison for obstructing a federal investigation into abuses and corruption in the nation's largest jail system. (Ed Crisostomo/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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FILE - In this March 15, 2017, file photo, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca takes questions from the media as he leaves federal court in Los Angeles. Baca is being sentenced Friday, May 12, 2017, for obstructing a federal investigation into abuses and corruption in the nation's largest jail system. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, middle, with his legal team, leaves federal court in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Baca was convicted Wednesday of obstructing an FBI corruption investigation of jails he ran and of lying to federal authorities. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, center with his wife, Carol, left, and his attorney, Nathan Hochman, leave federal court in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Baca was convicted Wednesday of obstructing an FBI investigation into corrupt and violent guards who took bribes to smuggle contraband into the jails he ran and savagely beat inmates. He could face 20 years in prison. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca talks to the media as he leaves federal court in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Baca was convicted Wednesday of obstructing an FBI corruption investigation of jails he ran and of lying to federal authorities. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca arrives with his wife at federal court in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Baca was convicted Wednesday of obstructing an FBI corruption investigation of jails he ran and of lying to federal authorities. He could face 20 years in prison. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2016 file photo, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca leaves federal court in Los Angeles. The federal corruption trial of Baca is nearing an end. Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday, March 13, 2017. The 74-year-old Baca is accused of obstructing justice and lying to federal authorities to thwart an FBI investigation into civil rights abuses in the county jails his agency oversaw. (AP Photo/Nick Ut,File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2016 file photo, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca leaves federal court in Los Angeles. Baca went on trial on federal corruption charges Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, stripped of a ceremonial badge and unable to present a defense that might have won him sympathy if jurors knew he was in the early stage of Alzheimer's disease. Instead, his lawyer dropped only a hint of what he couldn't say as he attacked the obstruction of justice and lying charges as an outgrowth of a rookie FBI investigation riddled with blunders. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, talks to members of the media as he walks out of a federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. A federal judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the corruption trial of Baca after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
