If he raped me, I wouldn’t be here right now.”. Banks was paroled when he was 22 in August 2007 under strict conditions that required him to register as a sex offender for life, live nowhere near any school or park and wear a GPS tracking device on his ankle for five years. “I think it’s important for people to know that this is not an isolated incident. “He’s already busy,” Banks proudly boasted of his son. They were together less than two years before divorcing (TMZ). He was acutely aware of what was supposed to happen when — after all, he had lived it. “I went to a known makeout spot with a girl that I’ve known since middle school, and we kissed and we made out,” Banks said. In spite of, and in part because of, the dire conditions Banks was forced to live under, he dedicated himself to moving forward and proving to the court he was innocent. Banks was exonerated, and like the many men and women found to have been innocent of the crimes they were convicted, he was met with a barrage of cameras and well-wishers curious to know what he would do now that he was given back his good name. “Biggest year of my life, for sports and education,” Banks, now 34, told InsideEdition.com. Brian eventually married a woman named Emanuela Marinova in May 2015. “We don’t really know what the truth really is as to why she lied,” he told the New York Daily News in 2015. “Finally, May 24, 2012, I walked into a courtroom a convicted sex offender, and I walked out of that courtroom a completely free and cleared man,” Banks said. “I never thought that I’d be in this position, but I am, and I’m thankful,” Banks said. Your email address will not be published. As Banks worked with the California Innocence Project’s founder, Justin Brooks, to explore his options for restoring his innocence, he received a social media notification in 2011 that would prove to be the start of another unexpected chapter in his life. His is a story that he is quick to point out is not uncommon, but is one that was so rousing, it has inspired a movie. “He had to bulk up to get that image of an NFL linebacker, and he had the option of getting this professional trainer and spending a bunch of money and working with somebody, and we both came up with the idea of, ‘How about you train with me?’”. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. “At this time, my lawyer looked me square in the eyes and told me, ‘Brian, I promise you and I guarantee you, they will give you the favorable report and you will get the probation period after 90 days. “Obviously there were certain scenes that I just did not want to be around for that they shot,” he said. “I was presented with this plea bargaining opportunity of if I pleaded no contest to one count of rape, that they would drop all the other charges and I would undergo what was called a 90-day observation at Chino State Prison,” Banks said. “I feel that this is a message for people that we can no longer allow innocent people to sit in cages like animals for things that they didn't do.”. “I was very naive in thinking that things would be better once I got home,” he said. But for Banks, that isn’t an option. … You are with Brian as he’s trying to secure his freedom. His first book, a memoir entitled “What Set Me Free,” was published in July. There, a psychologist and a counselor would evaluate Banks and weigh in on what they believed would be a just punishment for the teen: felony probation, three years in prison or six years in prison. The life Banks was creating for himself as a teenager ended in 2002, when he was charged with the rape and kidnapping of someone he had known since childhood. “Very tough to watch,” he said. He played four preseason games with the team before being released. Most notably, Banks and his girlfriend welcomed their first child, a boy named O’Rion King, in January. Did Brian Banks' accuser, Wanetta Gibson, contact him … “The judge still gave me the higher term of six years,” Banks said. The Long Beach Unified School District would go on to win a $2.6 million judgement against her for her suit against the district over the fabricated rape claim. IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. The rest of the team included director Tom Shadyac, whose films include “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,” “Liar, Liar,” “Patch Adams,” “Bruce Almighty” and “Evan Almighty,” Greg Kinnear, who portrayed Justin Brooks, Sherri Shepherd, who played Banks’ mother, Leomia, and Aldis Hodge, who made it his mission to honor Banks’ story. And then he was arrested for a crime that not only he didn't commit, but that never occurred in the first place. “He's crawling, he's pulling up on things and standing up, he's saying ‘mama’ and ‘baba’ already, he's sitting up on his own. Sad news for Brian Banks-- the football player who was famously wrongly convicted of rape is divorcing his wife less than 2 years after they tied the knot. “We cried and we laughed and we were mad together and we were sad together, and I feel like she just understood and she got it,” Banks said. 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That's my life now.”. “Did he rape you?” the investigator asked Gibson, and Banks told the Los Angeles Times she replied: “Of course not. Banks’ dedication to the film was also self-evident. You are learning about the system along the way. And the movie with which he shares his name hit theaters nationwide Aug. 9. “I am a firm believer in what you put out is what you get back, and so I try to walk through life being a very positive person,” he said. At the end of 2018, Brian was in a serious relationship that produced a son, O'rion King Banks, in late January 2019. “I was so proud at what [director] Tom [Shadyac] was able to do with this story,” Banks said. The press Banks and his story garnered piqued Hollywood’s interest, but he wanted to be sure whoever handled morphing his journey into one for the silver screen would take care to honor the uphill battle he had been fighting since 2002. “I sat in the middle seat, they closed the doors, turned off the lights and I was left to myself to watch this film, and I think every emotion that I had been keeping inside of me, everything that I had gone through, just surfaced in that moment.”. He co-hosted an Oxygen show “Final Appeal,” in which he and former prosecutor Loni Coombs examined cases where those convicted of crimes claimed to be innocent. It was raw and real and exactly what Banks hoped to have left the audience with. Banks signed with the Atlanta Falcons on April 3, 2013 and was released in the final round of roster cuts on August 30, 2013. “That was actually his exact words, ‘I don’t want to act this out, I want to become who you are,’” Banks said. He spent 90 days at Chino State Prison, received a favorable report from the authorities tasked with evaluating him and went back to court hopeful he would be leaving a free man. In an empty theater with nothing but his memories to keep him company, Banks watched the film for the first time on his own. If you meet negative with negative, you only create more negative, but if you meet negative with positive, you, in some ways, cancel out the negativity and you find ways to rise above it.”. This video is unavailable because we were unable to load a message from our sponsors. Your email address will not be published. Brian Banks was on track to have it all.. At 16, the California native was already making a name for himself as a standout football player. “I never really got a clear reason.” Banks and Gibson "made out" that day but never had sex, Banks said. Gibson has not publicly addressed the incident. “Being positive helped me get through very negative situations. “I actually took back a dream that was taken away from me.”. “I can honestly say that, beyond this film, he’s one of my best friends,” Banks said. Banks spent almost nine months fighting for his innocence before his attorney offered what he said was described as the best possible outcome. “I was found and deemed factually innocent, which is a big difference in a court of law. “You’re angry, you’re excited, you’re happy, you’re sad, but you walk out of the theater with a newfound prospective on the flaws within our system and how we can make it better, and how we can come together to make sure that these changes are rectified and done,” he continued.
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