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Dorsey's purported sexual misconduct, cash for conduct, bribery scheme and the personal 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. >> ...

Interview hundreds of people. >> anyone who was going to be affected by the new administration now needs to be interviewed and accounted for 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,...

Into the political corruption. they went to the local library. and with the help of the librarian that they went through the stacks and figured out where i lived. and i said, well, mr. cuffy, why 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 h...

>> not long after dorsey's incarceration, phyllis brown, derwin's widow, a vigilant presence at every hearing and trial, suffered a debilitating stroke. >> 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 w...

Two of the four deputy sheriffs who assassinated derwin 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 d...