Cinnamon Brown

As the morning wears on, clouds thicken over the Karl Holton Camp for juvenile offenders, the sky darkens, the dreary concrete bungalows look even more drab. A chill wind picks up. The television crew pulls jackets tight. Things look bleak--just as they should. Such gloom is ideal for "Love You to Death," the four-hour miniseries being filmed here about the bizarre David Brown murder case in Orange County.

For months after their 1988 arrests, David Arnold Brown wrote to his new wife dozens of times in jail to profess his loyalty and to try to dissuade her from testifying against him about the murder of his former wife in their Garden Grove home, according to letters disclosed in court Tuesday. "You should know that neither one of us has bad things to say about the other--only good," Brown wrote in one of several dozen cards and letters he sent to Patti Bailey while both were in jail.

A Superior Court judge said Tuesday that he sees no reason to bar a jury from hearing evidence on computer entrepreneur David A. Brown's alleged jailhouse scheme to assassinate three key figures involved in his prosecution on murder charges. But the judge said he would consider the request overnight anyway. Judge Donald A.

Anaheim computer businessman David A. Brown pleaded innocent Friday to charges that he plotted to kill two members of the district attorney's office and his current wife in an effort to thwart his ongoing murder prosecution. Prosecutors say they have tapes of recent phone conversations between Brown, 36, and another inmate at Orange County Jail in which Brown allegedly offered to pay at least $30,000--and perhaps hundreds of thousands more--for the murders of the three.

The sentencing of convicted murderer David Brown, who faces life in prison for orchestrating his wife's 1985 killing, was postponed Wednesday following a death in the family of one of the lawyers in the case. The court date was rescheduled for Sept. 17. The delay gives the 37-year-old Brown additional time to work with a sentencing specialist whom he has apparently hired in an attempt to dissuade Judge Donald A. McCartin from sending him to prison for life without the possibility of parole.

In a critical blow to murder defendant David Arnold Brown, a judge decided Thursday that a jury can hear about the Anaheim Hills man's alleged jailhouse plot to hire a hit man to kill three key figures in his prosecution. Gary Pohlson, the attorney defending Brown on charges that he orchestrated his wife's 1985 murder and pinned it on his own daughter, said the ruling makes his job "an almost impossible task."

The Orange County district attorney's office, reversing its earlier stance, has decided not to seek the death penalty against David A. Brown, the Anaheim Hills man who is accused of orchestrating his wife's murder and then hiring a hit man to try to kill key figures in his prosecution. Prosecutors would not disclose the reasons for their unusual move in a closed meeting Friday, citing only "new information" raised by the two lawyers who recently took over Brown's defense.

Rekindling a feud between two well-known local attorneys, a prosecutor suggested in court Monday that murder defendant David Brown's former lawyer may have played a role in Brown's plan to assassinate key figures in the prosecution and may have tried to pay jail inmates to perjure themselves. Called as a witness for the defense in the Brown case, the former defense attorney, Joel Baruch of Newport Beach, angrily denied the insinuations by Deputy Dist. Atty.