A jury declared Friday that Atlanta’s Cochran Firm does not owe anything to Markel Hutchins, a community activist and self-styled minister who acted as a spokesman for the family of Kathryn Johnston after the 96-year-old woman was slain by Atlanta police in 2006 during a botched drug raid. Three Atlanta police officers were subsequently sent to prison for trying to cover up the incident by planting marijuana in Johnston’s home.
After Johnston’s estate settled with the city of Atlanta for $4.9 million in 2011, Hutchins said he was due 10 percent of the money according to a purported verbal agreement with Johnston’s niece and estate administrator, the late Sarah Dozier.
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