Kirstin Lobato, who was wrongly convicted twice and served nearly 16 years in a Nevada state prison for a 2001 killing she did not commit, was awarded $34 million in a civil trial.
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. District Court, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. 'It’s been an uphill battle with many, many obstacles,' she told reporters.
She was exonerated and freed from prison in late 2017 after the Innocence Project and attorneys in Las Vegas again took her case to the state Supreme Court. Justices said evidence showed that Lobato was in her hometown of Panaca, Nevada, some 150 miles from Las Vegas when Bailey was killed. Last October, a state court judge in Las Vegas issued a certificate declaring Lobato innocent of Bailey’s killing.
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