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New York Times Wrongly Convicted Man Gets $7.95 Million Settlement By: Rebecca Cathcart A man who spent 24 years imprisoned for a murder he did not commit will receive $7.95 million from the City of Long Beach after he sued the police there for withholding evidence in his 1980 trial. The settlement, made public Thursday,…

PII’s Investigation Contributes To Decision By Arizona Judge To Vacate Defendant’s Death Sentence WEBWIRE – Friday, August 06, 2010 Los Angeles, California, August 5, 2010 – Nearly a decade of work by a team of investigators from Public Interest Investigations, Inc. (PII) was rewarded last week when Cochise County Superior Court Judge Wallace R. Hoggatt…

Los Angeles Times By: Scott Glover Los Angeles Clippers owner and real estate mogul Donald T. Sterling and his wife, Rochelle, have agreed to a record settlement of more than $2.7-million regarding allegations that they discriminated against African Americans, Latinos and families with children at scores of apartment buildings they own in and around Los…

Cardoza Law Review de novo Diagnosing And Analyzing Flawed Investigations: Abu Ghraib As A Case Study By: Keith Rohman We think of investigation as a road to truth, and truth as the goal of an investigation.  Yet time and again, high-visibility investigations of public scandals not only fail to uncover the truth, they seem to…

Webwire Los Angeles, California, June 17, 2009 – The Los Angeles Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild honored Keith Rohman, president of Public Interest Investigations, Inc., at its annual dinner on June 14, 2009. Rohman was among several distinguished honorees recognized by the organization. Other recipients were Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the U.C. Irvine School…

Daily Journal By: Martin Berg You might call Keith Rohman the anti-Pellicano. Some people familiar with his work already do. Far from the glamour and seaminess of Hollywood, Rohman and the Los Angeles-based company he founded, Public Interest Investigations Inc., has been digging into a mindbendingly wide array of cases for 25 years, ranging from…