Former DeKalb sheriff Sidney Dorsey, convicted of having incoming sheriff assassinated after losing election, dies in prison
Former DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey, who was convicted greater than 20 years in the past of having the incoming sheriff Derwin Brown assassinated after losing his re-election marketing campaign in 2000, he has died in prison on the age of 86.
The Georgia Department of Corrections confirmed Dorsey’s loss of life, and that it occurred of pure causes.
brown received election as sheriff in August 2000 and it was simply days from assuming workplace when his household got here residence late one December night time to find him gunned down in his personal driveway, according to CNN reporting from the time. He was 46 years previous and had a spouse and 5 youngsters.
According to a 2005 Georgia Supreme Court decision Upholding his homicide conviction that summarized the case, Dorsey started plotting the assassination shortly after losing the election — as he himself was below scrutiny for alleged corruption whereas sheriff.
He instructed each the sheriff’s workplace chief deputy on the time and a lady he was concerned in an affair with that Brown “would never assume office as sheriff, that a special election would be held in January, and that Dorsey would be re-elected sheriff.”
“Dorsey placed his hand in the shape of a gun up to his temple to signal Brown’s shooting,” the Supreme Court determination states.
Later, Dorsey held a gathering with a former worker of his personal safety firm and gave him a “written note which read, ‘Kill Derwin Brown.'”
That man evidently did not wish to commit the assassination alone, and three others had been recruited into the plot.
“Over the course of three months they met regularly at night near Brown’s home with the intention of killing Brown at any time that he was vulnerable,” the choice states.
Eventually on December 15, 2000, Dorsey decided the capturing “had to be done that evening” as Brown was just some days from taking workplace.
The 4 males Dorsey recruited into the assassination plot “drove together to a wooded area near Brown’s home, which they had staked out during their surveillance,” and “positioned themselves in wait for Brown to return home.”
“As Brown exited his car and was walking along the driveway of his DeKalb County home, he was shot 12 times and killed,” the state Supreme Court determination famous. The family reportedly found Brown in a pool of his personal blood.
One of the 4 males concerned in the plot was finally arrested and pointed to Dorsey because the “mastermind.”
The former sheriff was convicted at trial in July 2002 and acquired a life sentence for homicide. The Georgia Supreme Court determination additionally states trial proof confirmed allegations of corruption in the shape of an “ongoing pattern of theft of services of county personnel, and the unauthorized use of county vehicles and gasoline for personal profit and convenience throughout the entire course of Dorsey’s term as sheriff.”
The DeKalb district lawyer in 2007, Gwen Keyes Fleming, told news outlets Dorsey confessed that yr to orchestrating the homicide.
Dorsey had been serving his life sentence at Augusta State Medical Prison.
