PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — The City of Portland is poised Wednesday to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was wrongfully convicted for an overdose death that never happened.
The lawsuit was filed in 2023 by Attorneys Jesse Merrithew and Noah Horst, and sought $5.5 million in damages.
The case goes back 10 years in which a man and his friends used heroin in the early morning hours of May 23, 2015…