Summary

FORMER DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF DORSEY IS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON. HE WAS CONVICTED OF PLOTTING TO HAVE HIS SUCCESSOR KILLED.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 235499
Story Slug DORSEY GETS LIFE IN SHERIFF’S MURDER (8/15/2002)
Location DeKALB County, GEORGIA
Format PKG
Date 08/15/2002
Archive Time 7:51
TRT 2:11
Supers Dekalb County, Georgia Aungelique Proctor, Reporting Sidney Dorsey, Convicted Murderer Brandy Rhodes, Victim's Daughter Phyllis Brown, Victim's Wife Sherry Dorsey, Defendant's Wife Aungelique Proctor, Reporting
Video Description MAN IN COURT, CU OF MAN'S HANDS, MAN SOT, WOMAN SITTING IN COURT, WOMAN WALKING TO STAND IN COURT, WOMAN SOT, WOMAN SOT, PEOPLE WALKING IN COURT, WOMAN ON STAND IN COURT, WOMAN SOT, MAN IN COURT.
Description FORMER DEKALB COUNTY SHERIFF DORSEY IS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON. HE WAS CONVICTED OF PLOTTING TO HAVE HIS SUCCESSOR KILLED.
Script LEAD: SIDNEY DORSEY PROCLAIMS HIS INNOCENCE, EVEN AS HE IS SENTENCED FOR THE MURDER OF DERWIN BROWN. THE FORMER SHERIFF WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON FOR ARRANGING THE SHERIFF-ELECT'S ASSASSINATION IN DECEMBER OF 2000. DORSEY RECEIVED AN EXTRA 23 YEARS BEHIND BARS FOR 11 OTHER COUNTS ... INCLUDING RACKETEERING AND VIOLATING HIS OATH OF OFFICE. THURSDAY'S COURT PROCEEDING WAS A DRAMATIC END TO A TRIAL THAT SHOOK THE FOUNDATIONS OF DEKALB COUNTY GOVERNMENT, AND CAPTURED THE NATION'S ATTENTION. REPORTER AUNGELIQUE PROCTOR HAS MORE. SCRIPT: (SOT - DORSEY "I was not a part in the murder Derwin Brown ... I did not orchestrate, I did not plan ... ") WE DID NOT HEAR FROM THE FORMER SHERIFF DURING HIS MURDER TRIAL, BUT HE SPOKE FROM THE WITNESS STAND TODAY ... (SOT - DORSEY "Your honor ... and the Brown family, and my family ... I know you are going to sentence me severely, but I do not have the blood of Derwin Brown on my hands.") LOTS OF TEARS FLOWED AS MEMBERS OF THE BROWN FAMILY BLAMED DORSEY FOR MURDERING THEIR LOVED ONE ... (SOT - RHODES "Personally ... I do not want Dorsey to walk the streets again ... not in my lifetime, my kid's lifetime or their kid's lifetime.") (SOT - BROWN "When I found him in my driveway I looked in his eyes and he was not there ... you did that to me personally. I take it personally, the only person who has the right to take a life is my God.") IN AN UNEXPECTED MOVE, DORSEY'S WIFE, FORMER CITY COUNCIL WOMAN, SHERRY DORSEY TOOK THE STAND ... (SOT - SHERRY "The Brown family, I watched his mother in court and his children and I know how you feel, I know how it is to lose a member of your family, but my husband is not guilty. He is not guilty of what you're accusing him of ... but he's been convicted of murder, but he did not do it.") THE JUDGE SENTENCED THE FORMER SHERIFF TO LIFE IN PRISON, PLUS 23 YEARS FOR RACKETEERING AND THEFT ...
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Keywords

DORSEY
DERWIN BROWN
BROWN ASSASSINATION
SHERIFF’S MURDER
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