Ep. 42 - Kirstin Blaise Lobato [Wrongful Conviction]

The criminal justice system process is intended to protect the innocent, right the wrongs, and deter perpetrators from wrongdoing, but what happens when the judicial system that we rely on to serve justice and uphold the law fails? Innocent people spend too many years behind bars when they should’ve been walking freely. That’s what happened to Kirstin Blaise Lobato when she was convicted of a murder that she didn’t commit after the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department acquired extreme tunnel vision. Join Amanda and Arielle as they examine the reality of being wrongfully imprisoned.

https://innocenceproject.org/cases/kirstin-blaise-lobato/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials_of_Kirstin_Lobato

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=5254

https://theintercept.com/2017/10/25/kirstin-lobato-murder-trial-las-vegas/

https://theintercept.com/2015/03/12/murderinvegas/

https://theintercept.com/2017/12/29/las-vegas-murder-kirstin-lobato-wrongful-conviction/

https://theconversation.com/how-the-absence-of-blow-flies-overturned-a-wrongful-conviction-107865

https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2019/feb/14/forensic-entomology-helps-nevada-murder-convictee-get-exonerated-after-17-years-prison/

https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2018/12/sfu-forensic-entomologist-uses-blowfly-evidence-to-exonerate-ame.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh_X5vKF_LM

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