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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...

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 expressing any condolences? >> no. >> after a three-week trial then two days of ju...

Then came the case for murder. one of dorsey's friends testified dorsey told him that derwin brown would never assume the office of sheriff. >> he made the statement, words to the effect that derwin brown would never assume the office of sheriff, that there would be a special election. first there would be an interim sheriff appointed. there would be a special election. he would enter the race and he would win. >> co-conspirator paul skyers described the murder weapon which he said was dismantled and thrown in a drain. and patrick cuffy once again described being ordered by dorsey to strangle ...

The governor signed a special exception allowing phyllis brown to collect $75,000 in law enforcement widows benefits. that is all the family has ever received. >> all that public service after a case like this, it's time to try something else. >> former d.a., j. tom morgan is now in private practice. >> the case aged all of us because from the moment derwin was assassinated until dorsey was convicted, that was two long years, we lived and breathed that case every day. >> and morgan got a chilling wake-up call, himself, when he later learned that dorsey planned to kill him next. >> dorsey wante...