Ex-Football Star Brian Banks Cleared of Rape After 5 Years in Prison

Cityboy, I have never seen how or anything showing that going after women who lie about it would cause real rape victims to not come forward. Instead of the ways to encourage false accusers to come forward after destroying an innocent life, we should be looking at how they can get away with it so easy and telling all those who keep demanding we lower the standards of evidence or stopping the legal protections for the accused to "protect" accusers to go screw off.

Anyone who has been subject to false accusations can tell you, being innocent means nothing. You will be hounded by the police and ever other agency as well as having your name and address made public. You then can experience all the death threats, harassment, loss of jobs and rest and you have no real repercussions against a malicious accuser. Even if she has a well known history of false claims, you are not allowed to bring those up or anything. Then the legal standards to show they lied are even HIGHER than to convict you on a false claim. You have to prove she not only lied but she did it knowingly with malicious intent to harm you. Her doing it intending to cover her reputation but claiming she didn't think it would harm you means she walks.

This is why the few studies done on it are old. They found between 25% and 50% ADMITTED they lied intentionally and it doesn't include those who refused to admit it. People saw that and the feminists freaked so you can't get the money for those kinds of studies. The idea of even thinking of doubting a woman making that claim is considered about as much of a hate crime as joining the KKK. Just look at the Duke case as an example. Those boys went through hell and they will be paying for her claims their whole lives. She did it to get off easy for a probation violation and walked with no charges. She also got off easy in later charges of domestic violence and attempted arson with child endangerment because she was a "victim" of the prosecutor who pushed even after he knew she lied. This though she create the lie in the fist place. Now she is in jail on MURDER for killing her boyfriend by stabbing him.

If she had been charged, her ass would have been in jail and he would be alive. Same with the case of the Marine. They ignored charging her for false accusations the first time, her roommate didn't report her when she announced her intent to go UA or when she stated she planned to demand money from him to keep from making another accusation. She would be alive if she had been charged for that when it was well known she was a pathological liar who claimed things like her parents were dead and etc. Instead she was allowed to just keep walking. In the end, I honestly believe she lied about the rapes now and was killed because the Marine had been through enough hell and snapped when she made her blackmail attempt.

We need to stop letting a rape accusation be an easy way to get revenge or excused from other illegal activities and start to do more than just giving even the most obvious cases 30 days in jail at most. We need to come down HARD on them and start tossing these liars in jail for decades to protect innocent people from being thrown in prison and raped for REAL like happens all too often now and people think is funny to happen to people in jail!

Good luck on getting the money back. But California at least owes this man a full ride at whatever school he wants to attend and, as you say Mr. Flood, at least a shot at recouping some of his professional potential as well. That he was smart enough and disciplined enough to do this as he did would suggest that he has potential for success in something a little less physically damaging, possibly more lucrative, and way more useful than sportsatainment for obese couch potatoes. Good luck, Mr. Banks.

There are very few studies done on it but they found that the rate is between 25% and 50% of reports of rape are false. In a way it also makes a lot of sense. Women who are victims of rape tend to feel ashamed and not report it while a lot of women who would use it for revenge, cover an affair or protect their reputation would not have that issue and would have no problems reporting it.

Add in that males being raped are laughed at and made fun of in ways women wouldn't never be tolerated in being treated and society pretty much just says blame a guy and hammer him. Think about it, when you look at the numbers, MORE males are raped than women but you will never hear that. It is always not "really" a rape if it is in prison and then it is funny or if she has a beer and he is drunk, well he really was the one to date rape her since she was "drunk" even if she was the one who initiated it all. These things all inflate rape statistics for women while male victims of rape and male victims of false accusations tend to be ignored or just told to "man up" and accept it.

No death penalty for cases that have only eye witness testimony. Must have DNA and video or other supporting evidence. Otherwise they need to move on(die).