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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 o...

Former dekalb county sheriff, sidney dorsey, was now in jail for the rest of his life. convicted of ordering four deputy sheriffs to assassinate derwin brown, the man who defeated him in the 2000 election for sheriff. prosecutors were able to prove dorsey ran a sheriffs office and a jail rife with corruption. including sexual misconduct, bribery and ordering employees and inmates to do work for him outside the sheriffs office. >> i did what i was told to do. >> not long after dorsey's incarceration, phyllis brown, derwin's widow, a vigilant presence at every hearing and trial, suffered a debil...

>> that murder and the subsequent trials took a tremendous toll on her. >> remember, two of the gunmen, melvin walker and david ramsey, were acquitted in the state trial. >> i think the acquittal was very, very difficult for her. >> and the other two were granted immunity in return for testifying against the others. so all four gunmen were walking the streets. >> also, the fact that he was murdered right there on her front doorstep while she was, you know, three feet on the other side, i think that would be very difficult for any of us to lose a spouse in that manner. >> but suddenly, phyllis ...

For their activities that evening. >> two grand juries were impanelled. one who investigated the charges of corruption in the former sheriff's office. the other, the murder of derwin brown. >> i can't speak to what's going on in the prosecutor's head or primarily what his motives are. my statement to you is that i am not guilty of any form of corruption and i had absolutely nothing to do with the murder of derwin brown. >> nine months after brown's death, the case was at a standstill. >> the investigation was dead in the water. we knew we needed inside information. >> then came the big break. ...

Convict the others. >> the indictment charged melvin walker and david ramsey with murder. walker for shooting brown and ramsey, who also worked at ex-sheriff dorsey's private security firm, for being the armed lookout ready to kill anyone who intervened. >> walker was the triggerman. and skyers got rid of the gun. and cuffy drove the getaway car. >> cuffy's plea changed everything. >> i will accept your plea of guilty as to counts 12, 13 and 14. >> the trial in the state murder case against ramsey and walker began in the spring of 2002. it was held right in dekalb county. cuffy was the state's...