Louisville Metro Government has agreed to pay nearly $4 million to a man who sued the city and Louisville police after spending years in prison for a double shooting more than three decades ago.
Keith West’s attorney, Elliot Slosar, confirmed Friday the city reached a $3.8 million settlement in August. West had filed suit against former Louisville Police Detective Mark Handy, who pleaded guilty in 2021 to tampering with physical evidence in West’s two 1997 manslaughter convictions.
West served about seven years in prison and “lost decades of his life due to the egregious misconduct of former Detective Mark Handy and others in the Louisville Police Department,” according to his suit…