Trials of Kirstin Lobato

Kirstin Blaise Lobato is a Nevada woman who was exonerated for the July 2001 murder and mutilation of Duran Bailey, a homeless man from St. Louis who was living in Las Vegas at the time of his death. At her first trial in May 2002, she was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced from 40 to 100 years in prison. In a 2006 retrial, she was convicted of the lesser charges of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to 13 to 45 years. Lobato's case gained significant notoriety due to the publication of new evidence, which some believe points to her innocence of the crime.

On December 29, 2017, Lobato was ordered to be released from the Nevada Department of Corrections. It was reported on Jan 2, 2018, that Lobato would spend another year in prison for an unrelated incident, yet on January 3 the same judge who had ordered Lobato's original release, ordered her released on that matter as well, citing the time Lobato had already served.

Lobato was released from the Clark County Detention Center at about 2 pm on January 3, 2018. After being imprisoned for 11 years and three months since her pre-trial bail was revoked following her convictions on October 6, 2006, Lobato told reporters she wanted to go "shopping" and “get coffee."

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