DNA Exonerates Convicted Sheriff Killer In Deputy Shooting

Kingston Jamaica—For nearly two decades, what was considered a brutal double homicide is now being re-classified as a single act of self defense.  More than twenty years after the death of Sheriff John Brown, DNA evidence clears his killer, Robert Marlin, from the death of Sheriff Brown’s deputy. 

Ever since his arrest in 1973 Mr. Marlin has maintained his innocence.  Although pleading guilty to shooting the Sheriff in “self defense” Mr. Marlin has always maintained he was innocent of shooting the deputy.

In the spring of 1973 a young farmer named Robert Marlin claimed he shot the local Sheriff in self defense because according to trial transcripts “Sheriff John Brown always hated me.  For what I don’t know.  Every time that I plant a seed He said, ‘kill it before it grows.’” 

Johnny Cockrell, defense attorney for Mr. Marlin, has spent years trying to clear Mr. Marlin name of the Deputy murder. 

“Thanks to DNA evidence it appears Mr. Marlin did in fact not shoot the deputy,”  claimed a confident Cockrell. 

Recent rumors of a homosexual relationship between the Sheriff and the Deputy have come to light. 

“I didn’t want to say anything, but after seeing Broke back Mountain I realize there’s nothing dirty or wrong about gay love,”  said Suzie Brown, Sheriff John Brown’s wife.  “I admit it, I was a beard.  Don’t judge us, keep in mind it was the seventies, gay law enforcement officers were just not accepted,” she tearfully continued. 

According to other sources the deputy was so upset about the death of his lover, he took his own life with Mr. Marlin’s gun, thus explaining the DNA found on the gun.

When reached for comment about the DNA evidence and homosexual allegations a spokesman for the Marlin family said, “I always knew that one day the bottom would drop out, yes, one day the bottom will drop out.”

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