List of wrongful convictions in the United States
2000s

List of wrongful convictions in the United States

Section Title: 2000s
Table Section Text: None

Date of crime	Defendant(s)	Crime	Location	Sentence	Time served	Legally exonerated

2000, September 28	David Camm	Murder of his wife Kim and two children, Brad and Jill	Georgetown, Indiana	Life in prison	13 years	Yes

The key evidence against Camm was testimony regarding blood spatter patterns on his tee shirt. It was later discovered that one of the key prosecution witnesses, a blood spatter analyst whose findings had triggered the arrest, had falsified his credentials.

2001, July 8	Kirstin "Blaise" Lobato	Murder of Duran Bailey	Las Vegas, Nevada	40 to 100 years in prison	16 years	Yes

In May 2001, Lobato, then 18, was staying at a residential motel in Las Vegas when she was allegedly attacked by a black man who "smelled like alcohol and dirty diapers." She was able to escape after she pulled out a knife and slashed the man's groin.

2001, November 1	Ryan Ferguson	Murder of Kent Heitholt	Columbia, Missouri	40 years in prison	9 years, 8 months	Yes

Ferguson, who was 17 at the time of the murder, was convicted on the basis of a friend's confession to police claiming he and Ferguson killed Heitholt for drinking money.

2002	Brian Banks	Rape of Wanetta Gibson*	Long Beach, California	6 years in prison	5 years	Yes

Brian Banks was a student at Long Beach Polytechnic High School when a fellow student accused him of rape. He accepted a plea deal to avoid a lengthy sentence and ended up serving almost the entire sentence.

2005	Lamar Johnson	Murder of Carlos Sawyer	Baltimore, Maryland	Life in prison	13 years	Yes

Lamar Johnson was wrongly identified as the suspect following a 911 tip, that the assailant has a particular nickname: "Boo Boo." This tip came hours after the fatal attack.

2008, September 21	Adrian Thomas	Murder of his son Matthew Thomas*	Troy, New York	25 years to life in prison	6 years	Yes

Four-month-old Matthew Thomas was rushed to the hospital by his father after finding him unresponsive. During the interrogation, investigators told him that it had been proven the child died from blunt force trauma and that they knew someone in the household had done it.

Sentence(s)

Kirstin Blaise Lobato was exonerated for the July 2001 murder and mutilation of Duran Bailey in Las Vegas.

final_sentence: Kirstin Blaise Lobato was exonerated for the July 2001 murder and mutilation of Duran Bailey in Las Vegas.