# After 5 years in prison on a false charge, Brian Banks gets signed! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 4, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-5-years-in-prison-on-a-false-charge-brian-banks-gets-signed/654802 "2013-04-04T03:51:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Crime\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e495f1/32.png) [@Crime\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crime_Scene)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-5-years-in-prison-on-a-false-charge-brian-banks-gets-signed/654802/1 "2013-04-04T03:51:14Z")
Story here: > **[Brian Banks, Who Was Cleared Of Rape Conviction, Is Signed By Atlanta Falcons](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/04/03/176177491/brian-banks-who-was-cleared-of-rape-conviction-is-signed-by-atlanta-falcons)** > > Banks spent five years in prison and then five years of probation for a rape conviction that was thrown out in May 2012. Throughout it, he thought his dream of playing in the NFL was over. Mandatory 60 minutes interview and story here: > **[Exonerated Brian Banks Signs With The Falcons](http://nextimpulsesports.com/2013/04/03/exonerated-brian-banks-signs-with-the-falcons/)** > > If you have been following the Brian Banks story it is one of those things that makes you extremely mad and very happy. You hate the world. You love the world. All at the same time. Brian was a high school football star out of Long Beach. Heavily... I am so happy for him. It looks like he may make the team as a backup. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/after-5-years-in-prison-on-a-false-charge-brian-banks-gets-signed/654802/2 "2013-04-04T14:31:57Z")
That is **GREAT** news!