The Waffle House defense team (from left): David Cohen, Trish Renaud, Reid Thompson, Mye Brindle, Bruce Morris, Brian Steel and Jimmy Berry (Photo: Greg Land/ALM)

After about seven hours of deliberations, a Fulton County jury returned a defense verdict in the case of a two lawyers and their client accused of illegally recording Waffle House Chairman Joe Rogers Jr. as he engaged in a sex act with the woman.

The decision followed a seven-day trial of Rogers' former housekeeper, Mye Brindle, and her former lawyers, Johns Butters and David Cohen.

The proceedings included often-graphic descriptions of masturbation and other sexual acts Rogers demanded of Brindle and often resembled a trial of Rogers himself as defense lawyers accused the executive of dishonesty, infidelity and abusing employees.