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The murder of a homeless man in Las Vegas on July 8, 2001 was unusually vicious. The man was brutally beaten and stabbed, and his penis was amputated. Prime suspects were identified within hours of the murder, but detectives did not investigate them. Instead, weeks later they arrested an 18-year-old woman living 170 miles north of Las Vegas, based on a tipster's third-hand gossip that she might have cut a man's penis during an attempted rape in Las Vegas. That young woman is Kirstin Blaise Lobato.

There was no physical, forensic, eyewitness or confession evidence tying her to the crime scene, while many eyewitnesses established she was in Lincoln County the entire day of the murder. Yet, prosecutors were twice able to convict Ms. Lobato based on the argument that it is possible she committed the murder.


This book tells the story of how in 21st century America the possibility of guilt was allowed to replace proof beyond a reasonable doubt as the standard for Ms. Lobato's convictions in 2002, and again for her retrial in 2006.


This fourth (final) edition details the new exculpatory evidence discovered after the first edition of this book was published in May 2008, and after her convictions were affirmed in October 2009. That evidence includes forensic entomology and forensic pathology evidence proving the victim was murdered during a period of time that the prosecution conceded at Ms. Lobato's 2006 trial she was not in Las Vegas -- which means she could not have committed the crime.


It took an eight year post-conviction battle in the Clark County District Court, the Nevada Supreme Court, and then again in the District Court before Ms. Lobato's exculpatory time of death evidence was recognized as proving the jury convicted her based on incomplete evidence. Ms. Lobato's convictions were overturned, the charges were dismissed, and on January 3, 2018 she was released from custody of the State of Nevada. That was 16-1/2 years after she was arrested in July 2001 for a murder it was impossible for her to have committed.


Kirstin Blaise Lobato's Unreasonable Conviction – Exonerated By Impossibility Of Guilt details her two trials, the post-conviction investigation that discovered the exculpatory forensic time of death evidence, and her almost 8-year long post-conviction quest to overcome the opposition of the prosecution to have a judge recognize her conviction WAS unreasonable, because she didn't commit her convicted crimes.

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