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>> paul skyers testified that derwin brown was assassinated to pave the way for sidney dorsey's comeback. the four co-conspirators, he said, were all promised promotions for killing brown. >> it was a very demented understanding and very irrational. but he believed that there would be a special election in which he could retake his office. >> full weight of the evidence against these two guys brought in the conspiracy that sid dorsey ordered it, brought in patrick cuffy, who was their star witness. and presented a case that i thought was a slam-dunk against these two guys. >> but it was not a ...

Newspapers called a wild west shootout in his suburban atlanta front yard. cuffy had be ex-sheriff dorsey's right-hand man and worked in dorsey's private security firm and he was one of the deputies that derwin brown planned to fire. police had been watching cuffy for months. >> cuffy was, himself, kind of like a mini cult leader within the sheriffs office. when the police were able to fixate on cuffy, that led to them being able to see if they could solve the derwin brown assassination by making cuffy uncomfortable. >> the bond between cuffy and dorsey was very, very, very strong. cuffy descr...

Death benefits. >> there was an almost seven-day gap where technically he was unemployed as an officer. >> so the family sued dekalb county for wrongful death. >> they used county vehicles and county time to assassinate my father. >> the georgia court of appeals found the county was not liable. >> because dorsey was acting outside the scope of his employment as sheriff when he had derwin assassinated, the citizens of dekalb county and the state of georgia are not liable for his criminal actions. >> one month before she died, the u.s. supreme court refused to hear phyllis brown's next appeal. a...

With anyone. >> how dare they. how dare they. >> dorsey's team tried to blame it all on patrick cuffy. >> no evidence that sidney dorsey's involved and then telling a murderer, we know you're involved, but you'll walk out of here if you say the name sidney dorsey. >> the only person who had the motive to kill derwin brown is none other than sidney dorsey, himself. >> and through it all sat phyllis brown, the final witness. >> i'm sorry. i looked to my left on the ground, and derwin was lying there. >> then j. tom morgan asked her one final question. >> did you ever hear from sidney dorsey expr...

Dorsey now says that right after the election, he wrote a note to patrick cuffy saying he should assassinate sheriff-elect, derwin brown. >> apparently, i guess, the only thing to say is he had the same -- he had the same evil within -- in his heart as i did. >> dorsey told the prosecutor that cuffy replied, quote, we are way ahead of you, and ate the note. >> he thinks he made a mistake and wanted someone to say whether his mistake made him a murderer. >> to me that's not really a confession. it's not the bearing of the soul. it's, well, i did have something to do with it but not really as mu...