The city of Atlanta has agreed to pay $935,000 after firing its former crime lab chief for testifying as a defense expert in a Florida criminal case.

Donald Mikko was booted from his job after Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard Jr.  complained to former Atlanta Police Chief George Turner that, as a police official, Mikko should not be assisting criminal defendants even in another state, although his contract allowed him to do so.

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