outgoing sheriff sidney dorsey was arrested and charged with ordering the ambush and assassination of brown. the man that defeated dorsey in the sheriff's race and with promising promotions to four of his deputies in return for the killing. >> did you do it? did you do it? >> innocent. innocent. >> two of those deputies, melvin walker and david ramsey, were also arrested. unable to crack the case for nearly a year, prosecutors agreed not to charge the other two admitted co-conspirators, patrick cuffy and paul skyers, with any crime related to brown's murder in return for their agreement to tell the whole story. >> we needed their testimony. as much as i hated it. but this was the type of crime that had no one come forward we would have never solved it. >> d.a., j. tom morgan first asked brown's widow, phyllis, if she could live with cuffy going free. >> she said as long as he wasn't