A man who was formerly serving a lifetime sentence for murdering his 15-month-old daughter has struck a new plea deal that lets him out of custody in 1½ more years.
Darian McWoods has already served 8½ years behind bars because a Multnomah County jury found him guilty of murder by abuse in 2018.
But the case became a legal stain in 2022, when appellate judges threw out his lifetime sentence — determining that prosecutors had excluded two Black people from the jury because of their race…