UPDATE: 5-27-12 — 1:19 A.M. EST
Banks plans to file a claim against the state requesting money for the five years, two months that he spent in prison, his attorney told the Los Angeles Times. As previously, reported by Newsone, he was exonerated of rape after his accuser recanted her statement.
“We do not plan on taking any legal action against Gibson,” said Banks’ attorney, Justin Brooks of the California Innocence Project, referring to Banks’ accuser, Wanetta Gibson. “We do plan on filing a state claim for the $100 a day Brian is entitled to under State Law 4900 for every day he was wrongfully incarcerated.”
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Brian Banks was 17-years-old in 2002 when Wanetta Gibson lied to her mother and school officials, telling them that he raped her in a stair-well at Long Beach Polytechnic High School. In that instant, his dreams of a collegiate football career at the University of California were shattered.
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But now, after spending nearly 6 years in prison– and being exonerated after Gibson admitted that she lied about the rape — grassroots activists are fighting loudly on Banks’ behalf and a Facebook page has been created to encourage USC to reinstate the scholarship they offered him 2002.
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As previously reported by Newsone, the Trojans had their eye on Banks as a middle line-backer and the Facebook page, ” Fight On” for Brian Banks,” which at the time this article was published had 308 ‘Likes,’ is dedicated to helping Banks’ achieve his football dreams. 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.
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