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PROBLEM: Volkan Oezdemir  had a quick rise up the ranks of the UFC light heavyweight division. Originally signed as a late injury replacement for the injured Jan Blachowicz   Oezdemir  earned a split decision win over Ovince Saint Preux in February.  Oezdemir  followed that victory with first-round knockouts of Misha Cirkunov and Jimi Manuwa.  He  disposed of those fighters in a combined 70 seconds.
On January 20   Oezdemir  will face UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier in the co-main event of UFC 220.
âI once said that if Iâm hanging around and fighting guys like  Volkan Oezdemir  Iâve done something terribly wrong with my money and my time. â Cormier said at the recent UFC 220 press conference. âI just never expected him to do what he did so fast. Heâs put himself in this position because heâs been impressive.â
âI wanted to fight for the belt as fast as I can because I know Iâm capable of anything â said  Oezdemir . âIâm there to win. In the UFC I wanted to fight the top (fighters) right away. Itâs the place for the top guys in the world. I fought my first fight against the No. 6 in the world on two weeksâ notice and I just kept on going. I fought two months later and six weeks after that I was fighting for the third time. Always against a ranked opponent and Iâm ready for the champion now.â
While  Oezdemir  is confident he can pull off the upset victory over Cormier  the champion had some words of warning for his younger opponent.
âThey turn over  they present their neck  and they tap out. Thatâs about to happen to  Volkan Oezdemir .â
 Oezdemir  doesnât think  he  will become the seventh submission win on Cormierâs record.
âI got a heart  man. Itâs not going to be that easy â  Oezdemir  said. âYou saw my fight  you saw everything I did. I donât think youâve seen everything Iâm capable of. All fights were so fast and youâre not gonna be different.â

SOLUTION: Volkan Oezdemir

PROBLEM: There's  no question that Chicago police detective Dante Servin killed Rekia Boyd when he fired five shots at a group of people in a dark West Side alley .  The question  is whether  his  actions were justified because  he  had a reasonable fear that  his  life was in danger.
We'll never know the answer  because Cook County Judge Dennis Porter got stuck on a different question: Should  Servin  have been charged with a more serious crime than involuntary manslaughter?
 Servin 's trial ended Monday with a directed verdict of not guilty because Porter decided prosecutors had aimed too low.
 Servin  was off duty and in  his  personal car when  he  got in a shouting match with the group in March 2012.  His  lawyers say  he  drew  his  gun and fired when Antonio Cross pulled an object from  his  waistband and pointed it at  Servin .  Boyd  was hit in the back of the head.  She  died two days later.  She  was 22.
After three days of testimony  Porter abruptly ended  Servin 's bench trial. He said prosecutors had shown "beyond a reasonable doubt" that Servin killed  Boyd   and that the officer fired the shots knowing they were likely to cause great bodily harm or death. Those elements would add up to first-degree murder  the judge said  unless  Servin  could prove he acted in self defense. But  Servin  never had to make that case.
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To win a conviction on the involuntary manslaughter charge  prosecutors needed to prove that  Servin  acted recklessly — without regard for the risks.
 Servin  couldn't be convicted of first-degree murder because  he  was charged with involuntary manslaughter. And  he  couldn't be convicted of involuntary manslaughter  Porter said  because there was no evidence of reckless behavior.
The appellate courts said the evidence supported a first-degree murder conviction and the defendants weren't entitled to be tried on a less serious charge. Their convictions were upheld.  Servin 's outcome turns that on  its  head.
We asked around and found some attorneys who agreed with Porter's reasoning and some who didn't. It's not subject to appeal  because  Servin  was found not guilty. The case is over.
 Servin  did not help matters with  his  comments to reporters after the verdict.  He  repeated  his  contention that Boyd's death was an accident — let's be clear   the judge  said no such thing — and said  he  was lucky not to be "a police death statistic."
"Antonio Cross is a would-be cop killer  and that's all I have to say "  Servin  said.
 Servin  was making an off-duty burger run in  his  personal car when the confrontation occurred.  He  was not putting  his  life on the line to serve and protect.
Cross is not a would-be cop killer.  His  "weapon" turned out to be a cell phone. An aggravated assault charge against  him  was dropped in March 2013  the same day the city agreed to a $4.5 million wrongful death settlement with Boyd's relatives.

SOLUTION: Dante Servin

PROBLEM: (CNN)  Nadia  was just 15 when ISIS fighters swarmed into  her  homeland.  She  says  she  was kidnapped  bought and sold by men who told  her  they owned  her   and repeatedly raped by them.
Three years on  the traumatized Yazidi is finally free of  her  captors  but remains trapped in a living nightmare  fearing the ISIS militants could still get to  her   or worse  kill members of  her  family.
The frail 18-year-old former slave doesn't even know if  her  mother  father and brother are still alive.
At a meeting in the Kurdistan region of Iraq   she  hides behind  her  cousin  one hand clenching  her  relative's shirt  the other holding tight to  her  own dress. Shell-shocked   she  cannot remember how many younger siblings  she  has  and struggles to recall their names.
 Nadia  was kidnapped by ISIS fighters who took over  her  Yazidi homeland when  she  was 15.
Nadia (not  her  real name) was among thousands of Yazidis captured by ISIS in August 2014 when the terror group launched an assault on Sinjar  then home to more than half a million members of this minority group.
 Nadia  and and  her  older sister Amira were separated from the rest of the family.  Their  mother was pregnant at the time  and  Nadia  doesn't know where she - or her baby - is now.
It was here   Nadia  says  that  she  witnessed an incident that still haunts  her : ISIS militants took a child away from his mother as  she  screamed for him.  Her  captors responded by hitting  her  on the head.  Nadia  still doesn't know what happened to the pair at the hands of the terrorists.
"They would tell us we sold you  we bought you "  she  says. "There were days we would wish we would die so no one says they sold us ... Beating and everything else is bearable  but not selling."
An Iraqi Kurdish investigator who asked to be identified as Shaima has heard stories like Nadia's dozens of times as she interviews freed Yazidis. "Some of them are eager to tell their story. Some of them are reluctant because they can't go into the details -- it's difficult for them " she says.
From Mosul   Nadia  and  her  sister were taken to Syria  where  Nadia  spent a year being moved between Homs  Tabqa  ISIS' self-declared capital  Raqqa  and Deir Ezzor.
 Nadia  says  her  sister Amira killed herself after she was forced to "marry" an ISIS fighter.
 Nadia  says  she  was repeatedly raped at the hands of  her  kidnappers.  Her  sister killed herself in captivity.
After her suicide   Nadia  says she was determined to get away. She and some other Yazidi captives tied their headscarves together to form a rope they used to climb out of the house where they were being held captive.
Sold to a Syrian ISIS fighter   Nadia  says  she  became pregnant; to avoid having a child conceived by rape   she  threw  herself  from walls and took pills to terminate the pregnancy.
"I did not want it  what else could I do?"  she  asks.

SOLUTION:
Nadia