[6] Following the war, Romley went to Arizona State University in Tempe as a business management student, and graduated in 1974.

After spending ten years in prison, four on Death Row, Krone was freed after DNA conclusively proved that he was innocent.

Romley defended his prosecution of Ray Krone by saying there was "strong circumstantial evidence" of his guilt.

(See: "Twice Wrongly Convicted of Murder - Ray Krone Is Set Free After 10 Years" by Hans Sherrer, Justice Denied Magazine, Vol.

[4] In August 2007, he became a personal advisor to James Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, in Washington, D.C.[4] In April 2010 the Board of Supervisors appointed him as Interim Maricopa County Attorney when Andrew Thomas resigned[8] amid ethics investigations from that position to run for the office of Attorney General of Arizona, making Romley only the third interim ever since 1912, following Donald Harris in 1976 and Phil MacDonnell (Andrew Thomas' Chief Deputy) in 2010.