Brian Banks to try out for the Seahawks

Neil3030

http://blog.seahawks.com/2012/06/06/banks-second-chance-opportunity-leads-him-to-tryout-with-seahawks/

After impressing at a workout, Banks will try out next week at Minicamp. He's a 6"2, 240lb middle linebacker, described as having explosive raw athleticism.

The reason this story is interesting is because he is getting his first NFL tryout at 26 years of age, after being wrongfully imprisoned for 5 years at the age of 17.

At the time of his arrest (when he was 16) he had verbally agreed to taking a full scholarship at USC. This was all halted when a classmate claimed that he had raped her during recess in a stairwell. He was arrested that same day.

The DA gave him the chance to plead guilty and get 18 months, or face trial and possibly be imprisoned for 41 years. His defence attorney told him to take the deal, as the jury would have just seen a big black teenager and assumed him guilty. He was given 10 minutes to make his choice, and not even allowed call his mother. The judge subsequently sentenced him to 6 years.

Upon his release, 62 months later, he was a registered as a sex-offender and forced to wear a monitoring bracelet. But a later confession by the accuser that she had made up the allegations, coupled with DNA evidence that intercourse hadn't even taken place between the pair, finally led to his exoneration this year, permitting him to travel freely and try out for NFL teams.

Full story below, which was published before his eventual exoneration.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GDRrcfd7Uk

He'll meet with his agent before possibly also visiting Miami and Kansas City, among others. Hopefully things work out for him and we see him in the NFL. It would make for a great story.

Silver-Tiger

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helimachoptor

Neil this is in the general chat thread aswell, a great news story tbh, obviously the Hawks seen enough to interest them and get him back for a proper work out

Justin10

He trying out with the Chargers today.

OAOB

Its a great story and delighted teams are giving him a shot but i reckon he'll not be anywhere near the NFL level, hasn't played football in 8years, too much to ask of him.
I'd definitely cheer for him if he made it

Justin10

Chargers didnt invite him back, I think he going to the Chiefs next.

Son Of A Vidic

Wouldn't it really be the fairy tale ending to see him make an NFL roster. I hope the bítch who falsely accused him and ruined his dream, also ends up doing a similar stretch in prison.

CoachTO

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Wouldn't it really be the fairy tale ending to see him make an NFL roster. I hope the bítch who falsely accused him and ruined his dream, also ends up doing a similar stretch in prison.

I was reading into this and spoke to a lawyer friend in the US and I dont think she can be prosecuted because of how the evidence was obtained. There is some confusion over the whole thing apparently. Banks got released as a judge used his powers to see the truth but it doesnt work the same way getting a conviction on her for some reason. My buddy explained it but even with all the crime and court shows I watched it made no sense to my old brain

Neil3030

It might have something to do with the fact that he confessed to the crime, which meant that she never had to lie in a courtroom, i.e., commit perjury.

I might be completely wrong on that though. At the very least they could get her for wasting police time?

Son Of A Vidic

CoachTO wrote: »

I was reading into this and spoke to a lawyer friend in the US and I dont think she can be prosecuted because of how the evidence was obtained. There is some confusion over the whole thing apparently. Banks got released as a judge used his powers to see the truth but it doesnt work the same way getting a conviction on her for some reason. My buddy explained it but even with all the crime and court shows I watched it made no sense to my old brain

Your not alone there in thinking that, because it also makes no sense to me. A wrongful conviction, perjury, wasting police time, ect, ect, and she can't be charged because of the methods used. Absolutely, fecking ridiculous when you think about it.

spiralism

Neil3030 wrote: »

http://blog.seahawks.com/2012/06/06/banks-second-chance-opportunity-leads-him-to-tryout-with-seahawks/

After impressing at a workout, Banks will try out next week at Minicamp. He's a 6"2, 240lb middle linebacker, described as having explosive raw athleticism.

The reason this story is interesting is because he is getting his first NFL tryout at 26 years of age, after being wrongfully imprisoned for 5 years at the age of 17.

At the time of his arrest (when he was 16) he had verbally agreed to taking a full scholarship at USC. This was all halted when a classmate claimed that he had raped her during recess in a stairwell. He was arrested that same day.

The DA gave him the chance to plead guilty and get 18 months, or face trial and possibly be imprisoned for 41 years. His defence attorney told him to take the deal, as the jury would have just seen a big black teenager and assumed him guilty. He was given 10 minutes to make his choice, and not even allowed call his mother. The judge subsequently sentenced him to 6 years.

Upon his release, 62 months later, he was a registered as a sex-offender and forced to wear a monitoring bracelet. But a later confession by the accuser that she had made up the allegations, coupled with DNA evidence that intercourse hadn't even taken place between the pair, finally led to his exoneration this year, permitting him to travel freely and try out for NFL teams.

Full story below, which was published before his eventual exoneration.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GDRrcfd7Uk

He'll meet with his agent before possibly also visiting Miami and Kansas City, among others. Hopefully things work out for him and we see him in the NFL. It would make for a great story.

without sounding too misognyistic, that story is proof that women are ****ing crazy. Lot of pure badness and spite in this world

Horrible that she gets off scot free for it and keeps a massive settlement that it's turned out she basically robbed. She should be behind bars and serve every minute of the sentence she consigned him to. She nearly ruined his life out of pure spite and wasted a massive amount of court and police time, before theiving a million dollar settlement on the back of it. pure evil.