[2][3] Banks signed as an undrafted free agent with the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League (UFL) in 2012.

[17] In the summer of 2002, aged 16, Banks was arrested and charged after classmate Wanetta Gibson falsely accused him of dragging her into a stairway and raping her.

[clarification needed] Shawn Ashley, who was a co-principal of Long Beach Poly High, had claimed that Banks would not be allowed back on campus regardless of any jurisdictional outcome.

Banks stated that he took the deal after his lawyer told him that he stood almost no chance at trial because he would likely be tried by an all-white jury who would only see "a big, black teenager."

[18] Gibson and her mother Wanda Rhodes sued the Long Beach Unified School District, claiming the Poly campus was not a safe environment, and won a $1.5 million settlement.

However, after the confession, CIP decided to make it the organization's first case involving a wrongfully convicted person who had already been released from prison.

However, CIP was instrumental in putting together additional evidence supporting Banks' story, which led the district attorney to ask the judge to reverse the conviction on May 24, 2012.

[28][29] It is directed by Tom Shadyac and features Aldis Hodge as Banks, Greg Kinnear as Brooks and Tiffany Dupont as CIP attorney Alissa Bjerkhoel.