Americans are waking up to the reality that our judicial system is rotten to its core. However, this latest example of a judge vacating a conviction for a man who violently murdered his daughter over the lack of jury diversity is about the most disgusting abuse of judicial authority one can display.

Fifteen-month-old Kamaya Flores died from a drug overdose in 2013 while in the care of her father, Darian Lee McWoods. The Oregon State Medical Examiner’s Office found methamphetamine in her bloodstream and evidence of physical abuse, including unilateral broken ribs with a laceration of the liver, facial bruising, and facial petechial hemorrhages, on her body.

It took over four years to get McWoods in front of a jury to answer for the charges against him, which included two counts of murder by abuse, three counts of manslaughter in the first degree, and one count each of criminally negligent homicide, criminal mistreatment in the first degree, and tampering with a witness. During the trial, the state’s expert witness testified that his daughter had injuries consistent with inflicted child abuse and compression asphyxia.

Instead of serving life in prison for violently murdering his toddler daughter, Portland man Darian McWoods was given a new sweetheart plea deal that reduced the lifetime sentence to 10 years only, meaning he gets out in a year and a half from now.

The original 2018 conviction…

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 16, 2025

McWoods was eventually convicted of all charges on June 5,........

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