capologist Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 LONG BEACH, Calif. — The kidnap-rape conviction of a once-promising prep football star was dismissed Thursday following a recantation by his accuser.Brian Banks collapsed in sobs on the counsel table during a court hearing where a prosecutor quickly conceded the decade-old case and moved for the dismissal.In the summer of 2002, Banks’ future looked bright: He was a 17-year-old high school football star being heavily recruited by a number of colleges. But in a single day that changed with the accusations of kidnapping and rape by a female student.He maintained there was no rape and their sexual contact was consensual, but his lawyer urged him to plead no contest rather than risk a sentence of 41 years to life in prison if convicted. He followed the advice and went to prison for six years, shattering his dreams of gridiron glory.Lawyers for the California Innocence Project were prepared Thursday to argue he should be exonerated.In a strange turn of events, the woman who accused him a decade ago friended him on Facebook when he got out of prison. Wanetta Gibson explained she wanted to “let bygones be bygones.”According to documents in the case, she met with Banks and said she had lied; there had been was no kidnap and no rape and she offered to help him clear his record.But she subsequently refused to repeat the story to prosecutors because she feared she would have to return a $1.5 million payment from a civil suit brought by her mother 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.”Justin Brooks, a lawyer who heads the innocence project, said that Banks has remained on probation, under electronic monitoring, has had to register as a sex offender and has had trouble getting a job.He said Banks continues to train for what he hopes will be a future chance at a football career.Read more: http://www.nydailyne...1#ixzz1vonlMeXU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falconsd56 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Yeah that annoyed me too.......I hope he launches a civil suite against her and sues for that 1.5 mill she also should be thrown in jail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicker Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 (edited) Yeah that annoyed me too.......I hope he launches a civil suite against her and sues for that 1.5 mill she also should be thrown in jailI think 41 years to life is appropriate. Edited May 24, 2012 by kicker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falconsd56 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I think 41 years to life is appropriate.And let her plead down to 6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forever Julian Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 pretty effed up, but you gotta take the 6 years each time when going up against this court system.I went to school with a guy doing life now because he tried to fight the charges instead of taking the plea which would have let him out ~3 or so years....its brutal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grrrillapmpn Inc.® Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 Hope she gets kidnapped and raped. I can't say I wouldn't have killed this ***** after the fact. She took his life away, and for what? So people wouldn't know she was smutting off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boogie Man Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 The lesson is; don't go hard on some chick ya hardly know so the clam ain't tore up and thus no physical evidence.Even still, people get put in prison over she said, he said wayyyy the eff too often. Either there's evidence beyond a reasonable doubt or their isn't. Dimwitted jurors need to be instructed that the word of a single witness should mean hardly shite, without corroborating evidence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judas yeast Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Thought this was a thread about briana banks... great disappointment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falconsd56 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I also think anyone who falsely accuses someone else of rape should be be labeled a sex offender and have to be put through what a sex offender has to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judas yeast Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 The problem with harshly punishing the accuser is this - they would discourage people from coming forward as in this case Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falconsd56 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 The problem with harshly punishing the accuser is this - they would discourage people from coming forward as in this caseMaybe so, but when people lie and destroy peoples lives there should be subject to the same fate as the people their lies condemned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hoopah! Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 The problem with harshly punishing the accuser is this - they would discourage people from coming forward as in this caseI would doubt punishing someone who totally fabricated an accusation would stop someone who was actually attacked from coming forward. Now severely punishing this monster to prevent other women from fabricating stories is what needs to be done here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEORGIAfan Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I'd also add that all their assets should be liquidated until the money is paid back( with interest), and the money given to Brian Banks to try and make a life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zodiac Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 From another forum I frequent.seeing as he has already been punished for the crime, and she has been compensated for the crime, why not just make the crime take place?Its raping time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falconsd56 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I'd also add that all their assets should be liquidated until the money is paid back( with interest), and the money given to Brian Banks to try and make a life.Yup.Anything bought with that 1.5 million should be sold and liquidated and given to him.Then he should make her do a pole dance for him while he throws quarters at her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
judas yeast Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I would doubt punishing someone who totally fabricated an accusation would stop someone who was actually attacked from coming forward. Now severely punishing this monster to prevent other women from fabricating stories is what needs to be done here.I meant it (excessive punishment) would discourage false accusers from coming clean - not that it would discourage legit victims from coming forward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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