Ex-sheriff charged in successor's death

Saturday, December 1, 2001

DECATUR, Ga. -- A former sheriff was arrested Friday in the assassination last December of his successor, who was gunned down in his driveway before he could make good on a campaign promise to clean up corruption.

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