The issue focused on the implementation of a deferred-prosecution agreement that would reduce the more than 50 years he had already served in federal prison for armed bank robbery after prosecutors dropped all criminal charges and agreed to drop the charge against him in exchange for his promising to turn informant in the 1993 murders of his two brothers. Brown was accused in the murders of James and Robert Brown, a pair of brothers who died in a 1985 robbery-the mortgage they were robbing at the time of the shootings had been foreclosed on by