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This story is am American tragedy. The whole story is absolutely disgusting. This lying POS for a human being totally ruined this guy's life. It makes me sick to my stomach. This greedy sociopath took a decent kid and totally screwed him over for money. I hope they hang this bitch. They should fine her and send her to jail for about 20 years or so. I hope that USC reaches out to this kid and perhaps gives him a special academic scholarship so he could get his life back together.

That is far to reasonable and in the interest of the Student-Athlete for the NCAA to go for that.

I think the best we can do from a University perspective is give the kid an academic scholarship or special grant so that he can get the education that he was promised almost 10 years ago.

It's the right thing to do.

It wasn't too difficult for her to prove it when it didn't happen.

Done:

"President Nikias –

I am writing to you after reading an article about the terrible plight of a former USC football recruit, Brian Banks. I am sure that you are familiar with this story as it has made headlines all day today. This young man was a promising young athlete and student that had football scholarship offers from many Division 1 Universities, including USC. He was accused and convicted of rape shortly before graduating from high school, which derailed his plans to attend college and play football.

The fact surrounding the case had always been a bit murky, but Brian maintained his innocence, even after he was convinced to take a plea bargain. This story took what can only be called a fateful turn recently, when his accuser recanted her claims that Brian raped her. In fact, she admitted that she had made up the story and not recanted earlier in order to keep the sizable financial settlement with the Long Beach School District.

Please know that I do not know Mr. Banks, nor have I ever met him. I am writing out the sheer outrage that I feel after seeing a bright, promising life snatched away by self-serving machinations. Basically, this young man’s future was destroyed out of greed.

I feel it important to ask for the University to consider a special scholarship for Brian Banks. I think it is the least we can do to help him put his life back together. He is still a young man and can still do great things. Perhaps, not on the gridiron, as he had originally planned, but great things none the less. The University of Southern California has a stellar reputation for reaching out to the Los Angeles community and help its own people. As a resident of Long Beach, and someone who dreamed of wearing Cardinal and Gold, Brian Banks is the epitome of that Angeleno in need.

Dr. Nikias, I appreciate your time and consideration to this note and urge you to continue to Fight On for the entire Trojan Family, including those whose dreams to attend the University were cut short.

All my best,"

Rape is already hard to prove. One of the lessons I remember from my criminal justice classes is that rape is one of the hardest crimes to prove. But who wants to take that chance

Crazy story.
Best to this guy. Fight On !!!! It would be great to see Brian Banks get some type of special scholarship from USC or something and even get back on the field as a Trojan one day. I doubt the NCAA would let SC do anything like that though. Never say never though.

Man, just to see the guy playing in the fall at an area JC in the fall would be great and maybe the way to go? Think how stoked he will feel just to put on pads again and play some ball if that's what he wants to do.
Wow. 6 years in the clink over some hootratbitch's BS. Oh man. Well Brian Banks will be OK and hopefully stronger in the mind having gone through this kind of thing. Tragedy happens and in all types of weird ways in one's life, hopefully he can see that at a young age and overcome and have a kickass life going forward. God Bless him and guide him to turn all of this into a positive in his life as best as possible. Glad the truth came to light .
Thats all
Fight On !!!

Two key words in my post..."MORE DIFFICULT."

Adding to your information...

president@usc.edu

phaden@usc.edu

dunnh@usc.edu

These e-mail addresses should work. The first is obviously for President Nikias, although I'd guess it's not his personal e-mail. I sent an e-mail there and received a reply, so somebody reads the e-mails. The other two are both for Director Haden. Heather Dunn is his executive assistant and her e-mail address is listed on the USC athletics website as the e-mail address for Director Haden. I've used both and received a reply from the phaden address.

Will you add both CLFK and Coach O's email too? They were both around the first time the young man was being recruited. Perhaps they can use their contacts to help, Brian, if USC is not in the cards for whatever reason.

Thanks, Joe.

Here is what is even more sickening. If this happened 10 years ago, there is a pretty decent chance she will not face any criminal penalites for filing a false police report or for perjury in her civil lawsuit. I suspect the statute of limitations for long gone. The school district's statute of limitations for fraud may have been tolled until it reasonably should have discovered her testimony was false.

Unbelievable.

Yup. She's probably going to get off scot-free. No prosecution and likely no attempt by the LB school district (or its insurers) to recoup the settlement money.

"More recently, Gibson has backed off her recantation, Brooks said. Nevertheless, when presented with the Innocence Project's findings, Los Angeles County prosecutors agreed that the case should be thrown out.

"It's not our job to maintain a conviction at any cost," Deputy Dist. Atty. Brentford Ferreira said. "It's our job to do justice."

He said prosecutors had no plans to charge Gibson, saying it would be a difficult case to prove.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rape-dismiss-20120525,0,3372200.story?page=2