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The Seattle Times Monfort sentenced to life in prison for killing Seattle police officer By: Sara Jean Green It took a King County jury about one hour to decide that Christopher Monfort should spend the rest of his life in prison for killing Seattle police Officer Timothy Brenton on Halloween night 2009. Though a King County…

Los Angeles, California, July 7, 2011–Keith Rohman, president of Public Interest Investigations, Inc., (PII) was recently named as the court-appointed monitor in Fred Pierce, et al v. County of Orange, et al., a class-action suit alleging that Orange County jail facilities did not comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and that disabled inmates…

The Nation Inside the Detainee Abuse Task Force by: Joshua E.S. Phillips Most days in 2005, a small group of agents with the Detainee Abuse Task Force (DATF) trickled into their one-room office at Camp Victory, part of the sprawling Victory Base Complex surrounding Baghdad’s airport. The camp’s centerpiece is Saddam Hussein’s glitzy Al-Faw Palace,…

ABC News 17 Veterans Sue Pentagon Over Rape Cases By: Arlette Saenz Fifteen female and two male veterans accused the military of ignoring reports of sexual abuse and rape by fellow service members in a federal class-action lawsuit filed today, hoping they will pressure the military to change the way sexual assault cases are handled.…

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…