Brian Banks Recorded Accuser's Confession

In 2002, 16-year-old American football prospect Brian Banks accepted a plea deal and spent nearly six years in prison after a girl named Wanetta Gibson, his classmate at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, falsely accused him of rape. Gibson and her mother later sued the Long Beach Unified School District over campus safety and received a $1.5 million settlement. In 2011, Gibson admitted before Banks and a private investigator that she had fabricated the allegation, while Banks secretly recorded the conversation, although the recording itself could not be admitted in court. A judge overturned Banks's conviction in 2012, and the school district won a $2.6 million judgment against Gibson in 2013.

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