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Man sentenced 10 years for death of 15-month-old daughter in 2013
PORTLAND, Ore. () — Darian McWoods was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday as a result of a plea deal for the death of his infant daughter more than a decade ago, according to the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office.
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In 2018, McWoods was found guilty of multiple charges, including murder by abuse, after his 15-month-old daughter Kamaya Flores died in December 2013. An autopsy found methadone toxicity in her system as the cause of death, the Oregon State Medical Examiner's Office determined. The autopsy also found trace amounts of methamphetamine in her blood, broken ribs and proof of compression asphyxiation, meaning she was crushed until she couldn't breathe.
Though a jury unanimously convicted McWoods of all of the homicide allegations and other charges in 2018, the case was after prosecutors had dismissed two men from the jury pool who were Black, the same race as the defendant. The court of appeals called the process discriminatory.
The case was sent back to the Multnomah County Circuit Court for a retrial. On May 28, McWoods pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and first-degree criminal mischief.
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