The problem with these cases is that there's always almost no real consequence for falsely accusing someone. Let her do a couple years in prison for obstruction of justice.

face criminal charges and disbarrment. My son was the victim of a false report and it could have turned out very badly for him had his public defender not been able to prove conclusively that it was false before it got very far past the charges stage. The prosecutor's office didn't even bother to do any investigation whatsoever, they just filed the charges based on the claims and statements of the "victim", who was trying to get back at him because he got a coveted slot that she had wanted in a group they were both members of. Any prosecutor who brings cases like this under these circumstances, with little investigation and just taking things at face value, deserves to be criminally prosecuted themselves, not the least of which for knowingly destroying innnocent lives.

seems only to that she be taken from her family and friends as long he was from his own.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/25/brian-banks-exonerated_n_1545559.html

that's a lot of potential earnings gone forever. An athlete cannot get his early 20s back. All that potential, gone forever over one lie.

She should spend 2 days in prison for every day that he had to.

Isn't falsely reporting a rape a pretty big crime? She should at least do as much time as he did. And he should be getting a damned fat check from the state, too.

be prosecuted.

she would go to jail one year for every year he served then 5 or more on top of that and be placed on a registry.


In reality he should count himself lucky: he was finally cleared. And just move on with his life.

Nothing will happen to her.

She committed a serious crime and violated the 10 commandments - thou shalt not bear false witness. She should pay dearly for this crime.

She should be prosecuted without question and put in prison for AT LEAST as long as he was in prison.

The school district should sue for the money back that she extorted out of them PLUS penalties.

Her case was weak in the first place, so the original players (prosecution, attorneys) bear some responsibility for poor investigation, bad legal advice. He should sue both her and them for conspiracy to see what settlement he can get.

and that also should have been done for the Duke lacrosse accuser.

And no bullshit excuses about "mental problems" either. A crime is a crime is a crime is a crime.

No amount of money will change the fact that he lost 5 years of his life.

I hope he's still able to get a career in the NFL, but he's lost his prime earning years already. A good 7 (or 8) figure settlement could help make up for those lost years and for the fact that he was unjustly imprisoned. If he isn't compensated fully for those lost years, it would be an even further travesty.

After all, isn't it part of their job to ferret out false accusations? I don't know anything about the particulars of this case, but shouldn't there be a little more to getting a conviction than one person's accusation?

sex-offender-obsessed culture that lumps men who give someone a misinterpreted look, kids who send each other racy pictures, and the like, with pedophiles and rapists under one big label of "sex offender", all it takes to ruin someone's life is to make these kinds of claims, it doesn't matter if the claim is true or not or what the true circumstances are. If a woman wants to get back at someone for whatever reason, she can make such claims and chances are charges will be filed without any real investigation and the person's life will be ruined. My son's life was nearly ruined by a deliberately false accusation; fortunately, he had a good public defender who was able to prove that it was false and that it never should have been filed in the first place before it got much past the charges stage. The prosecutor never even bothered to do any investigation, just filed charges on the word of the teenage bitch and her father. And nothing happened to her, either, regarding a false report, they just dropped the charges against my son.

What truly pisses me off besides the factor of ruined innocent lives is that this damages REAL rape and sexual harassment cases and makes REAL victims less credible, despite a real crime and real suffering. Which means REAL rapists and pedophiles get away with their crimes.

and also be made to compensate him.

One on hand I'm sympathetic to offering false accusers light or not sentences in order to get innocent people out of jail, but in this case she was (is) completely uncooperative with law enforcement. She (and her mother if she knew it was false) need to pay for their crimes.

From what I have seen, Banks is being really quite honorable.

She should also be forced to pay back the settlement she received as a result of her lying about being raped.

What's the story on this settlement?

And got a seven figure settlement from them.

the rest of her miserable life to pay it off. Both Banks and the school district should file suit against her and possibly her mother also, since I have the feeling she was in on it as well; if they lose everything they own, tough shit, most of it was ill-gotten gains anyway. She even told him in the private meeting he taped that she had been lying all along, but that she'd only say so if she didn't have to return the 1.5 million dollars she'd gotten. She then refused to cooperate with police until she learned he'd videotaped the whole confession. Fucking lying low-down bitch.

She (and her mom if she was also involved) should have to pay additional damages directly to Banks for the 5 years of his life he will never have back because she was so despicable and lied about being raped.

Banks, even though he is vindicated, will have to deal with people thinking he is a rapist for the rest of his life. And to think that she will remain free after that really burns my ass.

should sue her for the money he would have made as an NFL player. several million dollars over 4 to 5 years (from the time he reached 21 or 22 yrs old). She should spend the rest of her life working to pay him that money. Even that would not let bygones be bygones.

filing a false police report is a crime. Cost of court proceedings she should be liable for, too.

Why?

a grudge against the guy, take your pick. Some people will do anything for money, fame and attention, especially if they can get back at someone. For some people, any kind of limelight and attention, even negative, is desirable and the amount of money she extorted likely had a lot to do with it as well.