[lugsoul]

Got 'im - finally.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Local politics at its finest. Hell, we don't even kill newly elected sheriffs in Cook County so this must be a real rat's nest of corruption.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

We also experienced a corrupt Sheriff while we lived in Texas. Many people literally lived in fear of him for years.

When he was finally defeated, enough evidence was gathered to send him to the Federal Penitentiary. Unfortunately, he pled to a lesser charge of theft under $180,000 and got a light sentence. Those who investigated the story believed he stole over a million dollars.....

We got lucky - our corrupt Sheriff only stole money, he didn't kill....

[katykelly]

I wonder who was killed in the March shoot out?

[Howie]

I wonder if this will be put in the "hate-crime" column? Was the incumbent sheriff white? Just curious.

[coloradan]

People don't kill people - sheriffs kill people. This is why we need common-sense, reasonable, modest, sheriff-safety legislation.

[mercy]

Faulkner was right. Corruption is the bain of the South. Not that corruption is not found everywhere but it is deeply and firmly ingrained in the deep South. It is palpable still although better than it was in the days of the KKK. The more Northerners that immigrate the better it will get. Yankees may be a pain but generally they do not tollerate cooked cops. Pols maybe, but not cops. (yes, there are exceptions but for every example cited I can cite major arrests of cops in those precincts)

[beckett]

An amazing case. I remember watching on TV shortly after the murder and remarking about the boldness with which Dorsey proclaimed his innocence!

[Plummz]

He's not a perfect man, Connie, but he's been married for 37 years, shouldn't we just move on?

[Plummz]

Dorsey was under investigation for allegedly using on-duty deputies to work for his private security company and for letting jail inmates work in a home repair program run by his wife.

That's pretty bad, but cold-blooded murder makes me think this guy probably had a piece fo the drug trade he was protecting also. Free labor doesn't seem sufficient motive.

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

"...but I did not shoot the deputy."