Brian Banks exonerated

[jujube]

That girl needs jail time. She's the nightmare not just for men but for women too. Often women have been looked at as liars when making rape accusations due to her type.

 

[ccgirl]

That poor man. The accuser should have to go to jail herself for filing a false police report and perjury and they should have to pay back the 1.5 Million dollars!

 

[gwynne]

play devils advocate a bit.

It could very well be that she decided to help the guy out, so he could move on with his life, but did not want to jeopardize what she was entitled to.

there are always many different sides to the story, and we really don't know any side, but for a hidden camera of a meeting. Who is to say it was not staged?

My goodness....I don't even know where to begin. The only side to the story I see is a man was falsely accused of rape, and the "accuser" got a hefty profit for her time and trouble of making a false statement.

FWIW, attorney talking heads seem to think he has a great civil case against her. They only hope she hasn't spent all or most the money.

 

[Hannathy]

play devils advocate a bit.

It could very well be that she decided to help the guy out, so he could move on with his life, but did not want to jeopardise what she was entitled to.

there are always many different sides to the story, and we really don't know any side, but for a hidden camera of a meeting. Who is to say it was not staged?

What the hell was she entitled to? And for what? telling a lie? I have to hear this.

If she hadn't lied he wouldn't have to move on with his life!!! He wouldn't have had his life ripped away from him.

Oh I hope they hang her out to dry and if she spent the money, she has to pay it back for the rest of her life, and not some little pittance so she can have a good life, I want it to hurt.

Evil people do exist.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Well she'll probably be charged with something. She should go to jail for at least the time he spent there.

One woman crying "rape" falsely is one too many, and sadly more than one woman has done this. The fact that true victims of rape are treated badly does not change that. It's people like this woman who contribute to a climate that causes true victims to be regarded with suspicion.

One victim of rape not getting justice is one too many as well. As for the climate, well it has been there for thousands of years. And for many of those years in many places, rape wasn't even a crime. To this day, people assume victims were asking for it by the way they dressed or something. False allegations didn't cause that climate.

No one should ever go to jail based solely on the word of another person.

Her word wasn't the only reason he went to jail. He chose not to contest the charges.

It happens more often than you think

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194032,00.html

Looking at the one from Faux, they counted the 2000 cases where dna testing excluded the suspect being tested as false. On the contrary, that there were dna leavings to test suggest the allegations in those cases weren't false. Just that they got the wrong guy.

 

[Too Far From Home]

Evil people do exist.

Agreed - and I'll go further - what this woman did amounts to murder. She ended the life that this boy had. All of his dreams - gone. There is no going back and restoring his youth, or his dreams as an athlete. Yes, he is still alive, but the life that he lives is someone else's life - not the one that he was born to live. I can't even imagine how much his personality has been changed by life in prison, or by the beating that his spirit has taken by having to face these false accusations. There is no way that he is, today, the person that he was before this happened - or the person that he was meant to become.

The boy that was, is no more. The man that was meant to be, killed in his youth.

 

[Too Far From Home]

Her word wasn't the only reason he went to jail. He chose not to contest the charges.

Wow! Blame the victim. Sounds all too familiar.

 

[gwynne]

Wow! Blame the victim. Sounds all too familiar.

ITA. The only victim in this case is Brian Banks.

 

[Scurvy]

What the hell was she entitled to? And for what? telling a lie? I have to hear this.

If she hadn't lied he wouldn't have to move on with his life!!! He wouldn't have had his life ripped away from him.

Oh I hope they hang her out to dry and if she spent the money, she has to pay it back for the rest of her life, and not some little pittance so she can have a good life, I want it to hurt.

Evil people do exist.

I may have misunderstood but this is what I understood the previous poster to be saying:

Maybe the woman initially told the truth about the rape. Years later she felt so bad for her rapist that she sent him a friend request on Facebook and was willing to lie and allow herself to be taped saying that he didn't really rape her so that he could be exonerated. She didn't want to do any more than that because she didn't want to jeopardize the money she had gotten because of the rape.

I probably misunderstood, though, because that's too far fetched and bizarre even for someone playing Devil's advocate.

 

[Scurvy]

Well she'll probably be charged with something. She should go to jail for at least the time he spent there.

One victim of rape not getting justice is one too many as well. As for the climate, well it has been there for thousands of years. And for many of those years in many places, rape wasn't even a crime. To this day, people assume victims were asking for it by the way they dressed or something. False allegations didn't cause that climate.

Her word wasn't the only reason he went to jail. He chose not to contest the charges.



Looking at the one from Faux, they counted the 2000 cases where dna testing excluded the suspect being tested as false. On the contrary, that there were dna leavings to test suggest the allegations in those cases weren't false. Just that they got the wrong guy.

No, they didn't cause it. They do contribute to it.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

Just an FYI, you can't sue a DA's office for anything but incompetence and the bar is really high for that. It is illegal to sue a prosecuting attorney's office for malicious intent.

This is why the DA's in NOLA who knowingly sent dozens of innocent men to death row in are still walking around free and the DA's office got off the hook for paying out one red cent to any of the men when they were exonerated with evidence that the DA's office had and withheld from the men's defense lawyers before the original trials were held.

This is also why, even though it has been proven that Texas executed an innocent man, nothing will ever be done to the offices that conducted the prosecution.

 

[cm8]

Just an FYI, you can't sue a DA's office for anything but incompetence and the bar is really high for that. It is illegal to sue a prosecuting attorney's office for malicious intent.

This is why the DA's in NOLA who knowingly sent dozens of innocent men to death row in are still walking around free and the DA's office got off the hook for paying out one red cent to any of the men when they were exonerated with evidence that the DA's office had and withheld from the men's defense lawyers before the original trials were held.

This is also why, even though it has been proven that Texas executed an innocent man, nothing will ever be done to the offices that conducted the prosecution.

And that to me is so sad......

 

[jujube]

Just an FYI, you can't sue a DA's office for anything but incompetence and the bar is really high for that. It is illegal to sue a prosecuting attorney's office for malicious intent.

This is why the DA's in NOLA who knowingly sent dozens of innocent men to death row in are still walking around free and the DA's office got off the hook for paying out one red cent to any of the men when they were exonerated with evidence that the DA's office had and withheld from the men's defense lawyers before the original trials were held.

This is also why, even though it has been proven that Texas executed an innocent man, nothing will ever be done to the offices that conducted the prosecution.

You can sue the county because of the prosecution and raise a stink in the media. Of course if Corey loses, like Jeff Ashton, she might retire.

 

[Tozzie]

play devils advocate a bit.

It could very well be that she decided to help the guy out, so he could move on with his life, but did not want to jeopardise what she was entitled to.

there are always many different sides to the story, and we really don't know any side, but for a hidden camera of a meeting. Who is to say it was not staged?

Please tell me you are not serious. There is no woman that was infact brutalized by a rape that is going to "help" out her assailant.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

You can sue the county because of the prosecution and raise a stink in the media. Of course if Corey loses, like Jeff Ashton, she might retire.

You can raise a big stink, and he can sue, if he can prove incompetence. You cannot sue for malicious prosecution. There are several men in NOLA who had their youth and live stolen from them, who were on DEATH ROW, and they will never get recompense for the crime that was commited against them. Texas has executed at least one man who has now been 100% proven to be innocent of the crime for which he was put to death. No recompense for his family either.

This isn't anything new under the sun and there have been many worse miscarriages of justice in recent years done by prosecutors who cared only for making convictions, even against men they knew were innocent, leaving the truly guilty to remain free and unpunished for those crimes.

 

[jujube]

You can raise a big stink, and he can sue, if he can prove incompetence. You cannot sue for malicious prosecution. There are several men in NOLA who had their youth and live stolen from them, who were on DEATH ROW, and they will never get recompense for the crime that was commited against them. Texas has executed at least one man who has now been 100% proven to be innocent of the crime for which he was put to death. No recompense for his family either.

This isn't anything new under the sun and there have been many worse miscarriages of justice in recent years done by prosecutors who cared only for making convictions, even against men they knew were innocent, leaving the truly guilty to remain free and unpunished for those crimes.

Where did I say he could sue the DA for malicious prosecution? I said he could sue the county.