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...first glance, the stuffy basement room in the Maricopa County courthouse seems unremarkable: a black-robed figure looming over the dais; lawyers and sheriff's deputies at the ready; a line of 72 convicted felons up for sentencing. First comes the lanky forklift driver caught with crystal meth. Then the surly mechanic, father of three, busted for cocaine. And the pale 19-year-old with shorn red hair, on probation for using marijuana, who has failed his latest drug test. He shuffles his feet as his mother looks on, wipes away a tear and mumbles, "I messed...
RULED NEGLIGENT. CHARLES LAUX, former sheriff of Richardson County, Neb.; for not offering protective custody to Teena Brandon, a 21-year-old cross-dressing woman whose rape and murder inspired the movie Boys Don't Cry; by the Nebraska Supreme Court; in Lincoln...
...Sunday morning, in River Lake Estates, former sheriff's deputy Patrick Cuffy stood in his front yard, talking to a friend, when a red truck drove up. So did a black Ford Excursion, then a grayish Taurus. Armed with assault-style semiautomatics, a posse of men leaped out. They rushed Cuffy and his friend, Dania Hewitt, who had a gun of his own. A loud argument was followed by seven seconds of rapid gunfire. Children playing nearby dived behind bushes as the men exchanged 59 shots. By the time it was over, one gunman was wounded and another fatally shot...
Cuffy, 35, had attracted police attention long before the Sunday shoot-out. He had been deputy to Sidney Dorsey, the sheriff whom Derwin Brown defeated in a bitter fight last year. (Cuffy was also employed by Dorsey's private security firm.) Once, during the campaign, Brown told aides he had seen Cuffy lurking in a dark SUV, shadowing him as he discussed corruption in the DeKalb jail with a county official. Cuffy was one of 38 employees that the reform-minded Brown planned to fire once he took office. Cuffy had doubled his take-home...
...meantime, DeKalb County finally has a sheriff. A special election last Tuesday gave the office to interim sheriff Thomas Brown (no relation to Derwin Brown), who took 81% of the vote in a field of seven candidates. At his victory party, Thomas Brown's security cordon was as thick as a President's. Derwin Brown's widow Phyllis, who wants to open a youth club in her slain husband's honor, says that since the shoot-out, she and her family have applied for gun permits. Says Ron Brown, her brother-in-law: "Obviously, people are getting nervous somewhere...