Completely believable....because? She is unable to provide some very material facts and I am willing to bet that that she had more than one beer. THAT is completely believable. Her memory of the alleged events is inconclusive at best and everything she has done since then is inconsistent with a victim of that magnitude of crime.
Women do lie. Women do falsify claims. Women have convinced courts of law on that very ability. And some women have told themselves a story long enough that they believe it, can be very convincing, and at times, even embellish the story.
I think it's possible that something happened to her at some point. Was it at that party? That night? That person? That crime? I don't know. But is her story, as she told it, believable to me.....as a victim of sexual abuse? No.
One thing I can tell you is that some victims of sexual abuse, particularly when they don't tell, become some of the best deceivers of all time, precisely BECAUSE they have been victimized, taken advantage of, convinced to stay quiet. I'd be willing to bet that she may even have been a victim of sexual abuse by a family member and this is the avenue she finally used to say something.
Her testimony was not believable to me. Am I right? Who knows, however, I was looking for certain things, things I could recognize, an affect I can detect....it didn't happen, it wasn't there.
"A former high school football star whose dreams of a pro career were shattered by a rape conviction burst into tears Thursday as a judge threw out the charge that sent him to prison for more than five years.
Brian Banks, now 26, pleaded no contest 10 years ago on the advice of his lawyer after a childhood friend falsely accused him of attacking her on their high school campus.
In a strange turn of events, the woman, Wanetta Gibson, friended him on Facebook when he got out of prison.
In an initial meeting with him, she said she had lied; there had been no kidnap and no rape and she offered to help him clear his record, court records state.
But she 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.
During a second meeting that was secretly videotaped, she told 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," according to a defense investigator who was at the meeting.
It was uncertain Thursday whether Gibson will have to return the money.
Prosecutors also said they didn't immediately know if
she might be prosecuted for making the false accusation when she was 15."
http://www.espn.com/los-angeles/ncf...sc-trojans-recruit-exonerated-rape-conviction
So there you go LaSalle....a man falsely accused and CONVICTED of rape with a much higher standard of proof required, and a jury found him GUILTY based on the lies of a 15-year old. It does happen.
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