Subject: Richard Romley

• Former County Attorney Rick Romley endorses Dan Saban for Sheriff. (w/UPDATE)

  October 8, 2007

• OUR OWN OLIVER STONE

  January 29, 1992

• LISTEN UP, LAWYERS

  DON'T DO BUSINESS WITH PEOPLE WHO MAY ONE DAY BE ARRESTED FOR RACKETEERING

  June 10, 1992

• TRYING TO BE A HERO

  June 17, 1992

• DEALING WITH A CONFESSED SERIAL KILLER

  January 13, 1993

• THE CAMPAIGN-FINANCE STEEPLECHASEWHEN IT COMES TO RUNNING DOWN VIOLATORS, PROSECUTORS ARE NOT EVEN FOLLOWING THE PAC

  February 24, 1993

• REINVENTING THE BIG WHEEL

  DERAILED BY AZSCAM, DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVE MIKE CRUSA HAS WAGED HIS BEST CAMPAIGN YET---TO SALVAGE HIS OWN CAREER

  March 31, 1993

• BACK TO WORK

  July 21, 1993

• NOTES FROM THE TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL

  September 15, 1993

• LAWYERS, GUNS AND PUBLICITY

  THE COUNTY ATTORNEY'S HARD-LINE POLICY ON GUN CASES HAS GOTTEN HIM GOOD PRESS. IT'S ALSO CLOGGED THE COURTS, COST A LOT OF MONEY AND NEEDLESSLY IMPRISONED FIRST OFFENDERS.

  November 17, 1994

• Flashes

  February 29, 1996

• Letters

  March 14, 1996

• Crime Victims Who Kill?

  Prosecutors press gun charge despite thin evidence; now the accused is dead, allegedly at the hand of his "victims"

  March 28, 1996

• Letters

  March 28, 1996

• Locked in Masquerade

  The Department of Juvenile Corrections helped create an overcrowding crisis in state juvenile facilities--to the benefit of a private contractor that employs two former state officials

  May 16, 1996

• Flashes

  August 15, 1996

• Porn Free

  Why tough-talking county prosecutors freed a man facing 48 years in prison on a kiddie porn conviction

  September 5, 1996

• Emperor Strikes Out

  Guv sequel is a sorry state of affairs

  September 19, 1996

• A Hap-less Case

  Try as they might, Phoenix police have not been able to get the evidence they need to charge Jeanne Tovrea's stepson in her murder.

  March 13, 1997

• Glendale's Witness-Protection Program

  September 18, 1997

• Flashes

  June 24, 1999

• Flashes

  Week of October 12th

  October 12, 2000

• Letters

  From the week of March 8, 2001

  March 8, 2001

• Letters

  Letters from the week of July 10, 2003

  July 10, 2003

• Letters

  Letters from the week of September 11, 2003

  September 11, 2003

• Judge Orders Thomas to Show Conflicts in Case Vs. County Supervisors; Kicks Arpaio Off Lawsuit

  The lawsuit filed against the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors by County Attorney Andrew Thomas can proceed, a judge has ruled, but Thomas must disclose any potential conflicts of interest in the case. Retired Superior Court Judge Donald Daughton also kicked Sheriff Joe Arpaio off the lawsuit, which Thomas and Arpaio filed after the five-member Board of Supervisors stripped Thomas of the ability to handle the county's civil lawsuits. If you'll recall, the firing of Thomas by the board came

  February 27, 2009

• County Creates New Civil Litigation Department With Money Taken From County Attorney Andrew Thomas

  The Maricopa County Board Supervisors today sealed the deal on their transfer of power over civil litigation matters out of the office of County Attorney Andrew Thomas (pictured). With a vote in their informal meeting this morning, the supervisors created a new department to handle civil lawsuits and funded it with $528,000 taken from Thomas' office. The meeting agenda claims the move will cause litigation costs to "decline over time." Here's the agenda item in full bureaucratese: &nbs

  March 16, 2009

• Deep Fix

  Maricopa County Attorney Richard Romley went very, veryeasy on Governor Fife Symington and his cronies inthe Project SLIM bid-rigging case. After first assistant attorney general Rob Carey showed that the county attorney's investigation had been a sham, R

  February 22, 1996

• Tepid Response Force

  The county attorney promises to get to the bottom of Sheriff Arpaio's spending--by asking for a state audit that was already scheduled

  February 22, 1996

• I Could Just Slap Him

  Felon, swindler, liar, sleaze, pant-load. The many faces of Fife Symington

  February 17, 2005

• Balls in the Air

  Steely County Attorney Rick Romley's going, but he's not gone. He'd like to take the governor's office from Janet Napolitano

  December 16, 2004

• The Story of Us

  Often, the worst characters possess the best information

  February 1, 2001

• Second Thoughts

  Alan Korwin is a smart guy. So why does he love guns more than people?

  December 21, 2000

• Dunce Fever

  It's entirely possible that this great country desperately needs a dunderhead just now

  November 30, 2000

• Jessica's Hard Time

  Teen with IQ of 83 faces minimum sentence of 56 years for sex offenses

  November 2, 2000

• Flashes

  January 14, 1999

• A New Apparatchik in Joe's Politburo

  November 28, 1996

• Joe's Slush Fund

  State auditor general confirms that Sheriff Arpaio misspent $122,419

  September 19, 1996

• False Witness

  Rob Carey lied even when truth would have served

  March 14, 1996

• End of a Smear

  County Attorney Richard Romley thought he had parlayed a trivial investigation into the resignation of one of his chief political rivals. But Attorney General Grant Woods decided that his top assistant would not be sacrificed to prosecutorial overreaching

  March 14, 1996

• Trial By Media (Part I)

  For month after month, Phoenix news reporters repeated a disgruntled secretary's half-baked charges, helping County Attorney Richard Romley discredit a rival in the Attorney General's Office. The same media horde made scarcely a whimper when Romley cover

  March 7, 1996

• Trial By Media (Part II)

  For month after month, Phoenix news reporters repeated a disgruntled secretary's half-baked charges, helping County Attorney Richard Romley discredit a rival in the Attorney General's Office. The same media horde made scarcely a whimper when Romley cover

  March 7, 1996

• HAMM AND YEGGS

  June 29, 1995

• Opiate for the Mrs.

  When laws are broken, somebody's got to be punished. In the case of Cindy McCain, that somebody is Tom Gosinski

  September 8, 1994

• FIREFIGHTER FIRES BACKUNION CHIEF ALLEGES ABUSE OF POWER BY ORTEGA, ROMLEY, OTHERS

  March 3, 1993

• THIS AND THAT

  January 20, 1993

• ON THE ENEMIES LIST

  May 6, 1992

• A BUNCH OF NAME-DROPPERS

  April 15, 1992

• Arpaio's Public Records Requests are Cloverfield Monster Size

    Andrew ThomasThis is one Titanic fishing expedition. The requests made of county offices by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office and Sheriff's Office have received a lot of attention because they're so broad, but details about them in the press have been scarce. We figured that folks who are interested in the ongoing dispute between county officials might want to see them, so we put in a public records request for the requests: First up -- the requests by

  June 8, 2009

• Canadian Newspaper Retraces How Local Murderer was Spared Death Penalty in Mean, Old Arizona

  Image: Arizona Department of Corrections Ten years ago, a team of Canadian defense lawyers and diplomats pressed then-Maricopa County Attorney Richard Romley to spare the life of a man convicted of murdering an elderly Valley woman. Romley relented, deciding not to seek the death penalty against Paul Pilipow (pictured) and persuading the victim's family to see it his way, says an article in today's Canada's Leader-Post newspaper. The paper is on its second day of a look into the

  July 20, 2009