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Use of his inmates and deputies. dorsey continued to defend himself. >> the only thing i can say to you and the world is that sidney dorsey is innocent of all of these accusations. there is no corruption in the dekalb county sheriff's office. those accusations are completely and totally false. >> and brown continued to plan for change. >> his main concern was cleaning up the jail, making sure that the programs that were in place were actually going to benefit the people that they were designed to serve. >> brown's best friend and former partner, robert crowder, agreed to be his chief deputy. >...

Didn't you just look in the phonebook? he said, you're in the phonebook? i said, yes, i'm the only j. tom morgan in the phone book. he said, well, damn, we wasted all that time. right then i knew who am i dealing with? >> but perhaps the most stunning footnote to this story came late in the summer of 2007. from inside his isolation cell in the georgia state prison at reidsville prisoner 1148460 said he wanted to talk to the current dekalb county d.a., gwen keyes fleming. >> sidney dorsey, the man convicted of ordering the hit against derwin brown, has now confessed. >> almost seven years after...

Time. >> he had kind of surrounded himself with some kind of thuggish characters and dorsey began referring to himself in the third person. >> they started this relentless attack on sidney dorsey, morning, afternoon, evening, reporting constantly. apparently, the voting community was very confused. >> fiscal responsibility of professional management. these things have not been addressed because of all of these side issues. >> the heated general election was too close to call. and a runoff was necessary. >> initially, sidney was less than 500 votes away from going back into office. i think that...

Brown were now in prison for life after two trials. the mastermind of the hit, former sheriff sidney dorsey, also in prison for life. >> wait a minute. >> the cost to the family was unmeasurable. in addition to losing a husband, father and grandfather in a hail of gunfire just days before he was to become the sheriff, his wife, phyllis brown, died of heart failure at age 52. 3 1/2 years after suffering a major stroke. >> that murder and the subsequent trials took a tremendous toll on her. >> and there was more. the day that derwin brown died, he was not employed. he had resigned as police capt...

He was walking to the door with the roses in his hand. >> initially, i heard what i thought were fire crackers. because it just went pop, pop. but by the time it popped again, i realized it was gunshots. and i have to say that for once in my life, i remembered everything derwin ever told me to do. i told everybody to get down and get out of the room. pick up the phone, call 911, tell them shots are fired. because i honestly thought that it was at the other house. by the time things quieted down, and i'm still on the phone with 911, i peeked through the blind, and between the two cars that were...