The city of Portland is poised to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who spent more than five years in prison for selling heroin that police told him had caused a fatal overdose, only to learn after completing his sentence that his victim was actually alive.
Adam Gregg had pleaded guilty in Portland to dealing heroin after a prosecutor told him that the man who took the drug he sold had died of an overdose.
The prosecutor who negotiated the plea deal told Gregg that if he didn’t accept an offer of nearly seven years in state prison, he could face 20 years to life for the crime in federal court because of the death…