By Kaylee Remington
cleveland.com
ATLANTA — Sidney Dorsey, the previous DeKalb County sheriff who was convicted of orchestrating the assassination of his political rival greater than 20 years in the past, has died whereas serving a life sentence in jail. He was 86.
Officials with the Georgia Department of Corrections stated Dorsey died Monday night time of pure causes at Augusta State Medical Prison, the place he had been incarcerated for years following his conviction for the killing of sheriff-elect Derwin Brown.
Dorsey served as DeKalb County’s first African American sheriff from 1996 till 2000. His political profession got here to an finish after Brown, a longtime DeKalb County police officer, defeated him in a runoff election for sheriff that yr.
Just three days earlier than Brown was scheduled to be sworn into workplace in December 2000, he was ambushed outdoors his house in Decatur and shot 12 instances in what investigators later described as a political assassination.
A jury convicted Dorsey in 2002 of homicide and extra prices together with racketeering and violation of oath by a public officer. He was sentenced to life in jail plus extra years for corruption-related offenses tied to his tenure as sheriff.
Two deputies linked to the plot had been additionally convicted in reference to the killing and stay imprisoned.
Years after his conviction, Dorsey admitted to investigators that he had ordered the hit out of bitterness following his election defeat, although he later claimed he had tried to name off the plot earlier than Brown was killed.
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