Former American footballer, Brian Banks (b. 1985), was 16 when he was falsely accused of rape and taken into custody.

He then spent 5 years in prison and 5 on probation before the conviction was overturned on 24 May 2012 and his record of being a sex offender expunged.

Brian Banks' story is explored in this eponymous 2018 film, with Aldis Hodge starring as Aldis Hodge and Greg Kinnear as Justin Brooks, the California Innocence Project lawyer who was instructmental in the conviction being reversed.