- Kirstin Lobato was arrested at age 18, wrongly convicted twice, and served nearly 16 years in a Nevada state prison for a 2001 killing she did not commit.
- Lobato was awarded more than $34 million after a civil trial jury found Las Vegas police and two detectives, now retired, fabricated evidence during their investigation and intentionally inflicted emotional distress upon Lobato.
- Lobato was exonerated and freed from prison in 2017 after the Innocence Project and attorneys in Las Vegas again took her case to the state Supreme Court, showing evidence that Lobato was about 150 miles away from Las Vegas when the crime was committed.
A federal jury in Nevada has awarded more than $34 million to a woman who was arrested at age 18, wrongly convicted twice, and served nearly 16 years in a Nevada state prison for a 2001 killing she did not commit.
Kirstin Lobato, who is now 41 and uses the name Blaise, cried and hugged her attorneys after a judge read the trial verdict Thursday in U.S….