It also took a private investigator with hidden cameras to record the woman confessing in what she thought was a private conversation. She had not only put him in prison, but sued the school district and received $750,000 from them. A couple years after her false accusation she allegedly told her lawyer it wasn't true, and her lawyer allegedly told her she should keep quiet and let it play out. Neither the woman nor the lawyer faced prison time. The school district sued her to get their money back years later, but otherwise she has the rest of her life to benefit from whatever uninterrupted education and career she pursued after sending him to prison and receiving all of that money.

Brian Banks was a 16-year-old high school football star at Long Beach Polytechnic High School in Southern California when he was accused by Wanetta Gibson, a classmate, of rape in an empty stairwell on campus. Banks was tried as an adult and received a sentence that included nearly six years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Banks always maintained that the encounter with Gibson was consensual and they never had intercourse. He took a no-contest plea on the advice of his lawyer, who believed Banks would get probation instead of the maximum sentence. However, Banks was sentenced to six years. During his imprisonment, his mother sold her house and car to pay for his legal defense. In a dramatic turn of events, after Banks' release from prison, Gibson contacted him via Facebook. Banks, with the help of a private investigator, recorded a conversation with Gibson where she admitted to falsely accusing him. Despite her admission, Gibson was reluctant to tell the truth to law enforcement due to the financial settlement she had previously received. With this new evidence, the California Innocence Project took up Banks' case and he was ultimately exonerated in 2012. Following his exoneration, a court ordered Gibson to repay the Long Beach Unified School District a sum of $2.6 million, which included the initial settlement of $750,000, legal fees, interest, and punitive damages. Gibson had sued the school district claiming inadequate security, which led to the settlement. There was no biological evidence or DNA found to support the claim of rape. Despite the hardships he faced, Banks expressed no ill will toward Gibson, stating that he had moved on from the past. After his exoneration, Banks attempted to revive his football career and joined the Atlanta Falcons as a 27-year-old rookie. The case has been covered extensively in the media and has also been portrayed in a movie called Brian Banks (2018).

Never, ever, talk with the gun and badge thugs. Never! And the "system" is not broken, the tyranny is functioning just fine.

5.8|10. This movie shows how stupid american law implementation is, but it also a story of a guy going though that.