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acptulsa
You mean like the white people who released this guy, or the white people who mislabeled his ethnicity (misethnicked him?)?
Or how about this? Twin sisters falsely accuse black man of rape to cover up the fact that one of them had consensual sex with her cousin while the other was locked in the trunk? Stereotypical white hillbilly behavior, engage in incest then accuse a black man of rape.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vincent...ions-48-hours/
Diane Prater: So, I say to myself … it ain't going to do me no good to say nothing … But I never, never, never believed Vincent was guilty.
The private investigator also tried to talk to relatives of Karen, Sharon, and Keith. He ended up conducting a videotaped interview with Keith's cousin, Dana Brouillette — and she told him a shocking story. Dana said that Keith told her in a bar, long after the trial, that Vincent Simmons was never with them on Little California Road that night.
DANA BROUILLETTE [to Brian Andrews]: He came out and told me. There was never a Black man.
Instead, in a sworn affidavit, Dana says that Keith told her that "he had consensual sex with one of the girls and locked the other in the trunk."
DANA BROUILLETTE [to Brian Andrews]: He had gone down Little California Road and he locked Sharon in the trunk, and he said the sex between him and Karen was consensual. He said but the other one was a little hellcat. … That's the one that put the scratches on his neck.
Or how about the black HS football star when spent years behind bars for rape until the white girl who claimed he raped her recanted her testimony on Facebook but didn't want to go tell the prosecutors BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE TO PAY BACK THE $1.2 MILLION SETTLEMENT SHE GOT FROM THE SCHOOL SYSTEM?
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/oneti...ccuser-recants
LONG BEACH, Calif. – The kidnap-rape conviction of a once-promising prep football star was dismissed Thursday following a recantation by his accuser.
Brian Banks collapsed in sobs on the counsel table during a court hearing where a prosecutor quickly conceded the decade-old case and moved for the dismissal.
In the summer of 2002, Banks' future looked bright: He was a 17-year-old high school football star being heavily recruited by a number of colleges. But in a single day that changed with the accusations of kidnapping and rape by a female student.
He maintained there was no rape and their sexual contact was consensual, but his lawyer urged him to plead no contest rather than risk a sentence of 41 years to life in prison if convicted. He followed the advice and went to prison for six years, shattering his dreams of gridiron glory.
Lawyers for the California Innocence Project were prepared Thursday to argue he should be exonerated.
In a strange turn of events, the woman who accused him a decade ago friended him on Facebook when he got out of prison. Wanetta Gibson explained she wanted to "let bygones be bygones."
According to documents in the case, she met with Banks and said she had lied; there had been was no kidnap and no rape and she offered to help him clear his record.
But she subsequently refused to repeat the story to prosecutors because she feared she would have to return a $1.5 million payment from a civil suit brought by her mother against Long Beach schools.
She was quoted as telling Banks: "I will go through with helping you but it's like at the same time all that money they gave us, I mean gave me, I don't want to have to pay it back."
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.
He said Banks continues to train for what he hopes will be a future chance at a football career.
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