assassinated? brown had been preparing to shake things up at the jail, secretly meeting with the district attorney swapping stories about corruption by outgoing sheriff, sidney dorsey. i just had dinner with derwin a week before he was murdered, and then to see him later in the morgue right before the autopsy started was one of those images i will never forget. the killing of derwin brown just made no sense at all. the only real enemy he had was sid dorsey. but it didn t make sense that dorsey would have been behind it because dorsey didn t have anything to gain. he had already lost the election. i sympathize in saying that with the his family, with the law enforcement community which i m a member of, you get the same feeling when you lose a brother in blue, be it that he was a political adversary or not. derwin s own family was
mistake that sid dorsey, himself, made, he could be walking the streets right now. it is widely believed that had dorsey decided to be tried in dekalb, he may have easily been acquitted, like walker and ramsey. dorsey was still a popular, well-known figure in dekalb county. and i think a dekalb county jury would have been very skeptical of the evidence against him. i m going to be in prison on the outside, but i ll be free on the inside. before his sentencing, dorsey steadfastly maintained his innocence. i do not have the blood of derwin brown on my hands. derwin brown s brother, ron brown, was at that sentencing. he probably actually believes in his mind that he does not have my brother s blood on his hands. and he probably rationalizes that by thinking to himself that he had someone else pull the trigger for him and that enables him to make that statement and actually believe it. and phyllis brown chose the moment to respond to something she had heard dorsey say about
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 slam-dunk to the jury. we, the jury, find the defendant, david isaiah ramsey, not guilty of felony murder. the jury found them not guilty of murder. the loss of the first case was a very vivid memory, that jury coming back. and they got off. they had to take my mom away in an ambulance. people just could not believe it. and it was just holy smokes,