Football Star Jailed Six years ago For Rape he didn't Commit: Seeks Compensation

Date: 28-05-2012 12:41 am (11 years ago) | Author: psalmmy
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A former high school football who was wrongfully accused of rape and sentenced to six years in prison now wants the State of California to pay him for every day he had spent behind bars. Attorneys representing 26-year-old Brian Banks said their client is entitled to $100 a day for every day of his incarceration under state law.


 
Banks was exonerated this week after his accuser, Wanetta Gibson, admitted she had made up the whole story of segxwal assault ten years ago and had been reluctant to come forward because of a large settlement she received from the school district.



The Los Angeles Times has reported that Gibson also had been worried it would affect her relationship with her two children, now aged four and five. Banks, a once sought-after linebacker, collapsed in tears in the courtroom on Thursday when his case was moved to dismissal.

Banks' exoneration came after Gibson sent him a friend request on Facebook when he left prison in February of 2011 with a tag. In a message, she explained she wanted to 'let bygones be bygones'.
Banks's lawyer, Justin Brooks, told KPCC that Gibson and Banks met and she was caught on video saying there there had been no kidnap and no rape, and would help him clear his record.



Yet she refused to repeat the story to prosecutors as she feared she would have to return a $1.5million payment she won after her mother brought a suit against Long Beach Schools. She was quoted as telling Banks: 'I will go through with helping you but it's like at the same time all that money they gave us, I mean gave me, I don't want to have to pay it back.'

The 26-year-old has said he does not plan to pursue legal action against his accuser, and Los Angeles prosecutors have said it is unlikely Gibson will be charged with making false accusations, saying it would be a tough case to prove.



Banks was jailed after Gibson accused him of rape in 2002, when he was just 16 and being heavily recruited by a number of colleges, including USC, which had offered him a full scholarship. He was on the way to the school office to talk about his college applications when he bumped into Gibson, a fellow student, and they went to a stairwell to make out, Brooks told KPCC. He pointed out that they did not have intercourse.



He explained that Banks said something to upset Gibson and they parted on bad terms. She later accused him of kidnapping her, dragging her across the school and molesting her in the stairwell. Investigators tested her but found no physical evidence of rape, Brooks said. Banks maintained they had not had sex and all segxwal contact had been consensual.

'Brian’s story is so compelling, and his case for innocence so clear, we knew we had to take this on,' said Justin Brooks. 'Brian lost a huge part of his life when he was unjustly sent to prison.

Brooks said Banks has remained on probation under electronic monitoring, has had to register as a sex offender and has had trouble getting a job. After the exoneration on Thursday, Banks added: 'My only dream in the world is just to be free... For years, I felt like a toy with the switch cut off, sitting on the shelf.'

Banks continues to train for what he hopes will be a future chance at a football career in the NFL. 'This is a kid who was a superstar,' Brooks added. 'He would be playing the NFL now if this hadn't happened.'


MEN Trust no lady!

Posted: at 28-05-2012 12:41 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
- legionkiwi at 28-05-2012 02:10 AM (11 years ago)
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what a world we are living in, ladies
Posted: at 28-05-2012 02:10 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
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- habiziz at 28-05-2012 02:21 AM (11 years ago)
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women they say are the demons the arch deciever uses to draw we men closer to him.  Grin Grin poor guy. six years in prison? chai. i will ask for the girl to be executed with immediate effect. Grin
Posted: at 28-05-2012 02:21 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
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- ajanni at 28-05-2012 03:49 AM (11 years ago)
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goodluck to him
Posted: at 28-05-2012 03:49 AM (11 years ago) | Grande Master
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- freaky_man at 28-05-2012 05:23 AM (11 years ago)
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that why, we need to pray to God to avert trouble for us, yanga dey sleep trouble come wake.....
but na this king thing dey push person to the world, because if na person like me spend 6 years inside for the crime i did not come, i will kill the girl. judge, and every body that is involve in sentencing me. unless God intervene before i could reach them
Posted: at 28-05-2012 05:23 AM (11 years ago) | Newbie
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- Adego1 at 28-05-2012 05:36 AM (11 years ago)
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It pays to be faithful, faith has finally set him free guud luck my unknown friend
Posted: at 28-05-2012 05:36 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
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- Omolara80 at 28-05-2012 06:03 AM (11 years ago)
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Motherphyuker, something is wrong here,  phyuking stupid poster (A former high school football who was wrongfully accused of rape)
Posted: at 28-05-2012 06:03 AM (11 years ago) | Newbie
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- osamabinladin at 28-05-2012 06:04 AM (11 years ago)
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One free, thousands hoping that the truth will be revealed,the lady needs to be sentenced,period
Posted: at 28-05-2012 06:04 AM (11 years ago) | Hero
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- aliaaz at 28-05-2012 07:14 AM (11 years ago)
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k

Posted: at 28-05-2012 07:14 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- mickky21 at 28-05-2012 07:25 AM (11 years ago)
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There are many like him in prisons all over the world........I hope he gets his compensation. Congrats to him. he still has many more yrs to live.
Posted: at 28-05-2012 07:25 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
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- mickky21 at 28-05-2012 07:27 AM (11 years ago)
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Why the ladies no wan comment??? Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
Posted: at 28-05-2012 07:27 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
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- vantheo at 28-05-2012 07:35 AM (11 years ago)
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The girl resemble nigerian oh

Posted: at 28-05-2012 07:35 AM (11 years ago) | Hero
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- denmal at 28-05-2012 07:39 AM (11 years ago)
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ladies
Posted: at 28-05-2012 07:39 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- simonhen at 28-05-2012 08:00 AM (11 years ago)
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Ladies are something else, guys be careful.
Posted: at 28-05-2012 08:00 AM (11 years ago) | Newbie
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- dogodajiabuja at 28-05-2012 08:04 AM (11 years ago)
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WOW!!!!! Congrats to this young man...he's already been through more crap than most will ever watch in any movie! BUT....If this lying woman isn't prosecuted and found guilty..then that would be a crime as well! She should serve equal time!! PERIOD!!
Posted: at 28-05-2012 08:04 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
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- dogodajiabuja at 28-05-2012 08:07 AM (11 years ago)
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Justice demands that she be prosecuted. There are three victims in this story that this women destroyed:
1) Brian Banks- This one is easy. She destroyed his dream of playing in the NFL. She ruined his future by getting his scholarship to USC taken away. Even if he did not make the NFL a degree from USC is huge.
2) Women who are raped- As a decent human being when a woman claims she is raped I want to believe her. After reading this story I have to have doubts. By her selfish actions she has made it that much harder for women who actually are raped to get justice.
3) The other students in the Long Beach school district- $1.5 million was stolen from them. Money that could have been spent on field trips, money that could have been spent on new textbooks, more teachers, etc instead went to an evil human being as part of a settlement for a crime that never happened.

She needs to be put in prison for what she did.
Posted: at 28-05-2012 08:07 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
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- Ausnowx at 28-05-2012 08:09 AM (11 years ago)
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....finally justice prevail..God will see u tru..
Posted: at 28-05-2012 08:09 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
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- gwinbright222 at 28-05-2012 08:10 AM (11 years ago)
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Na wa oooh for ladies
Posted: at 28-05-2012 08:10 AM (11 years ago) | Newbie
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- termorrison at 28-05-2012 08:12 AM (11 years ago)
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 ANOTHER MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN WAT A WORLD WE LIVE IN][/b][/color]
Posted: at 28-05-2012 08:12 AM (11 years ago) | Newbie
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- simeonogah at 28-05-2012 08:27 AM (11 years ago)
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OH WHAT A PATHETIC LIFE, CAN THIS YOUNG MAN GET HIS LIFE BACK ON TRACK AGAIN?
Posted: at 28-05-2012 08:27 AM (11 years ago) | Newbie
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