who would want the sheriff elect 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
they worked for dorsey s wife, sherry, an elected member of the atlanta city council. see, the problem is most people don t know me. people who know me know that i am an honest man with great integrity. that s the people who know me. i realize that there is a perception out there. those leaked photographs would become part of a wide-ranging indictment against dorsey. he used his power for his office to have sheriffs deputies to transport children to and from school. he used his power as a sheriff to have another deputy pick up a happy meal for his son every day. he used the power of sheriff to take bribes from the bonding companies. there would be further charges. that dorsey was demanding sex, cash and gifts from a local businesswoman in return for awarding her company a bail bonding contract at the jail. and that dorsey s deputy sheriffs were working as his private security firm on county
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 once ran. did you do it? did you do it? sidney dorsey was now charged with masterminding and directing four of his deputies to murder sheriff-elect, derwin brown. i m innocent. what to you say to the charges? coming up two murder trials in georgia and two very different verdicts.
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 debilitating stroke.
that was a price to pay. okay. and then what happened, please? then he just started, you know, having sexual intercourse to me. she says dorsey also confided something in her. he was saying, derwin won t be there, like i was like, oh. he was going he was saying, derwin would not make it to the to take office. and a parade of dorsey s former employees testified they were ordered to chauffeur dorsey s children. it came from the sheriff. i felt like, you know, he should he should know better and know more than anybody, you know, whether it would be right or wrong. how do you feel about the way the proceedings are going? i don t know. i ve never been in this position before. corruption testimony ended.