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Banks, a football player from a high school in the United States, was accused of rape by his classmate Wanetta Gibson from the Polytechnic High School in 2002. He faced a possible sentence of up to 41 years of life imprisonment. Banks accepted a plea deal, which included five years in prison, five years of strict probation, and registration as a sex offender. The Gibson family sued the Long Beach Unified School District, claiming that the district had a culture of corruption. In March 2011, they were awarded $1.5 million in compensation. Later, Gibson contacted Banks to admit that she had fabricated the incident. Banks secretly recorded the conversation, but Gibson refused to inform the prosecution of the truth and was unwilling to return the money. With the help of the "California Innocence Project" organization, Banks' wrongful conviction was overturned in May 2012. In April 2013, the Long Beach Unified School District sued Gibson for $2 million to recover the $1.5 million she had fraudulently obtained. The school district ultimately received $2.6 million in compensation. Banks briefly joined the Atlanta Falcons in the NFL in 2013 and currently serves as a spokesperson for the "California Innocence Project" organization.