Summary

A SURPRISE PLEA AGREEMENT IN THE MURDER TRIAL OF PATRICK CUFFY. POLICE SAY A SHOOTOUT AT CUFFY'S SUBURBAN ATLANTA HOME STEMMED FROM A DISPUTE OVER A STOLEN TRUCK AND A LARGE AMOUNT OF NARCOTICS. POLICE SAY THEY BELIEVE THE SHOOTOUT IS ALSO CONNECTED TO THE DECEMBER SLAYING OF DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF-ELECT DERWIN BROWN.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 219018
Story Slug CUFFY TRIAL PLEA BARGAIN (11/28/2001)
Location DEKALB County, GEORGIA
Format PKG
Date 11/28/2001
Archive Time 45:34
TRT :59
Supers DeKalb County, Georgia Doug Richards, Reporting Keith Adams, Cuffy's Attorney
Video Description LS OF THE COURT ROOM, PROSECUTOR WALKING IN THE COURT ROOM, DEFENSE ATTORNEY WALKING, CLS OF JUDGE, DEFENSE TAKING A SEAT, CLS OF CUFFY, FILE VO OF THE LAST MARCH INVESTIGATION, FILE OF CUFFY IN POLICE CAR, PHOTO OF BROWN, FILE VO OF BROWN INVESTIGATION, CLS OF BROWN WIFE PHYILLIS, SOT OF ADAMS
Description A SURPRISE PLEA AGREEMENT IN THE MURDER TRIAL OF PATRICK CUFFY. POLICE SAY A SHOOTOUT AT CUFFY'S SUBURBAN ATLANTA HOME STEMMED FROM A DISPUTE OVER A STOLEN TRUCK AND A LARGE AMOUNT OF NARCOTICS. POLICE SAY THEY BELIEVE THE SHOOTOUT IS ALSO CONNECTED TO THE DECEMBER SLAYING OF DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF-ELECT DERWIN BROWN.
Script LEAD: AN UNEXPECTED GUILTY PLEA COMES FROM FORMER DEKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA SHERIFF'S DEPUTY PATRICK CUFFY TODAY. CUFFY HAD BEEN CHARGED WITH MURDER FOR A SHOOTOUT IN FRONT OF HIS HOME EARLIER THIS YEAR. BUT WITH JURY SELECTION ABOUT TO BEGIN, CUFFY PLEADED GUILTY TO LESSER CHARGES. DOUG RICHARDS WAS AT THE COURT HOUSE TODAY AND HAS MORE. SCRIPT: COURT STARTED WITH MUTED CONVERSATIONS AMONG PROSECUTORS AND DEFENSE ATTORNEYS. FOLLOWED BY A FIFTEEN MINUTE IN CHAMBER MEETING, BETWEEN JUDGE ROBERT MALICE, THE DA, AND DEFENDANT PATRICK CUFFY. THE PLEA AGREEMENT WAS THE RESULT. PROSECUTOR ADMITTED THE FORMER DEKALB JAILER, FIRED NO WEAPONS DURING A DRUG SHOOT OUT IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE LAST MARCH. BUT THEY SAY HE TRIED TO COVER UP EVIDENCE. CUFFY HAD CONTENDED THAT HE WAS THE MAIN TARGET OF THE INVESTIGATION IN THE DERWIN BROWN CASE. BROWN, THE DEKALB SHERIFF ELECT, WAS GUNNED DOWN OUTSIDE HIS HOME ELEVEN MONTHS AGO. HIS WIDOW, PHYILIS, WAS IN THE COURT ROOM TODAY. BUT CUFFY'S ATTORNEY SAID THE PLEA IN THIS CASE WON'T ADVANCE THE BROWN INVESTIGATION. (SOT- "This doesn't have anything to do with Derwin Brown. It has always being our contention that it did not. Perhaps, the investigator thought that initially. But I'm sure at this point they must certainly think or realize that there's not.")
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Keywords

CUFFY
DERWIN BROWN MURDER
PLEA BARGAIN
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