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LOS ANGELES — A former high school football star whose rape conviction was thrown out this week plans to file a claim against the state but will not sue the woman who recanted the sexual assault accusation she made a decade ago, his lawyer said.

Brian Banks will seek $100 from the state for every day he was wrongfully incarcerated, Justin Brooks, an attorney with the California Innocence Project, told the Los Angeles Times.

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