it. and it was just holy smokes, how did that happen? and the jury could not wrap themselves around understanding why these people would do such a horrible act. nor could the jury believe patrick cuffy, an admitted liar, or find a clear motive for the murder. cuffy s story deserved skepticism anyway because he conveniently flipped on sid dorsey when he got into trouble. how could anyone kill a sheriff-elect for nothing more than a promotion in a sheriff s department? now the four men accused of carrying out the assassination were free to walk the streets. only cuffy would serve less than a year on a reduced charge stemming from the shootout at his home. losing that first trial was very difficult. we knew they were guilty. but once that was over with, we knew we still had a job to do and that was to convict mr. dorsey. the murder trial of sidney dorsey began in june in a small
now, the irony of all of this is that there s a shootout at cuffy s house and cuffy is being prosecuted for something totally unrelated to the murder and that s when he wants to come talk to us. j. tom morgan went in the back room. cuffy went into the back room. cuffy s attorney went into the back room. and the hearing was delayed. and several hours later, cuffy flipped. prosecutors agreed not to charge cuffy and another former deputy sheriff, paul skyers, in return for their testimony against dorsey and two others. mr. dorsey, did you have anything to do with this? the day after cuffy flipped, former sheriff sidney dorsey was handcuffed and taken by officers armed with machine guns to this same jail he once ran. did you do it? did you do it? sidney dorsey was now charged with masterminding and directing four of his deputies to murder sheriff-elect, derwin brown. i m innocent. what to you say to the charges? coming up
and the jury could not wrap themselves around understanding why these people would do such a horrible act. nor could the jury believe patrick cuffy, an admitted liar, or find a clear motive for the murder. cuffy s story deserved skepticism anyway because he conveniently flipped on sid dorsey when he got into trouble. how could anyone kill a sheriff-elect for nothing more than a promotion in a sheriff s department? now the four men accused of carrying out the assassination were free to walk the streets. only cuffy would serve less than a year on a reduced charge stemming from the shootout at his home. losing that first trial was very difficult. we knew they were guilty. but once that was over with, we knew we still had a job to do and that was to convict mr. dorsey. the murder trial of sidney dorsey began in june in a small south georgia town of albany. dorsey s attorney requested to have the trial anywhere but in
unrelated to the murder and that s when he wants to come talk to us. j. tom morgan went in the back room. cuffy went into the back room. cuffy s attorney went into the back room. and the hearing was delayed. and several hours later, cuffy flipped. prosecutors agreed not to charge cuffy and another former deputy sheriff, paul skyers, in return for their testimony against dorsey and two others. mr. dorsey, did you have anything to do with this? the day after cuffy flipped, former sheriff sidney dorsey was handcuffed and taken by officers armed with machine guns to this same jail he once ran. did you do it? did you do it? sidney dorsey was now charged with masterminding and directing four of his deputies to murder sheriff-elect, derwin brown. i m innocent. what to you say to the charges? coming up two murder trials in georgia and two very different verdicts.
how did that happen? and the jury could not wrap themselves around understanding why these people would do such a horrible act. nor could the jury believe patrick cuffy, an admitted liar, or find a clear motive for the murder. cuffy s story deserved skepticism anyway because he conveniently flipped on sid dorsey when he got into trouble. how could anyone kill a sheriff-elect for nothing more than a promotion in a sheriff s department? now the four men accused of carrying out the assassination were free to walk the streets. only cuffy would serve less than a year on a reduced charge stemming from the shootout at his home. losing that first trial was very difficult. we knew they were guilty. but once that was over with, we knew we still had a job to do and that was to convict mr. dorsey. the murder trial of sidney dorsey began in june in a small south georgia town of albany. dorsey s attorney requested to