http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-ussher224523763nov22,0,652062.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlinesA federal judge in Atlanta gave a Roosevelt family a sense of justice and long-delayed closure yesterday when he sentenced two men to life in prison for the ambush and assassination of sheriff-elect Derwin Brown, the Lakeview native who was shot dead in his Georgia driveway in December 2000.
Ron Brown, Derwin Brown's brother, and other family members delivered passionate impact statements in U.S. District Court Judge Jack T. Camp's courtroom, which was packed with relatives of the 46-year-old victim and the defendants, Melvin Walker and David Ramsey.
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In August, jurors found Walker and Ramsey guilty in a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate Brown, who was gunned down just days before he was to be sworn in as sheriff of DeKalb County. Ron Brown called the brutal attack "an assault on justice" because the assailants killed his brother for campaigning as a reformer who would clean up corruption in the county. "It was the courage of his convictions and his sincere commitment to justice that became the biggest threat to his enemies," Brown told the court.
Prosecutors proved to jurors that Walker and Ramsey carried out the plot at the orders of Brown's political rival, Sidney Dorsey, whom Brown defeated at the polls in August 2000, and with the assistance of two other men, Paul Skyers and Patrick Cuffy.
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