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Regardless of the College of Illinois dropping its investigation, former star guard Terrence Shannon Jr. has been ordered to face trial on a rape cost in Kansas.
Shannon was suspended from the basketball workforce in December when he was initially charged, stemming from an alleged incident in September.
He was reinstated in January after lacking six video games after a federal choose granted his movement for a short lived restraining order in opposition to the college.
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Illinois guard Terrence Shannon Jr. reacts after hitting a basket and being fouled in the course of the second-round NCAA Match recreation in opposition to Duquesne on the CHI Well being Heart Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska, on March 23 in (AP Picture/Charlie Neibergall)
A Kansas choose on Friday dominated, although, that there was possible trigger for a trial.
“Our authorized workforce is neither shocked nor disillusioned by the end result of this occasion,” Mark Sutter, one in all Shannon’s attorneys stated in an announcement, through ESPN. “A preliminary listening to is a procedural course of that merely speaks to the brink of proof and whether or not a query of truth might exist for a jury. It has nothing to do with guilt or innocence. These points might be determined at trial, and we proceed to look ahead to our day in courtroom.”
Prosecutors in Douglas County charged Shannon on Dec. 5 with rape or an alternate depend of sexual battery. The grievance says the accuser was born in 2005.
The alleged sufferer instructed police Shannon pulled her towards him, put his palms beneath her skirt and touched her sexually. She stated the bar was so crowded she could not “do something,” an affidavit stated.
Illinois Preventing Illini guard Terrence Shannon Jr. brings the ball up courtroom in the course of the recreation in opposition to the Tennessee Volunteers at Meals Metropolis Heart in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Dec. 9, 2023. (Bryan Lynn/Icon Sportswire through Getty Pictures)
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Shannon on Friday pleaded not responsible and testified that he by no means touched the lady.
As a fifth-year pupil this previous season, Shannon led the Illini in scoring (23.0 factors per recreation) and helped them attain the Elite Eight of the NCAA Match earlier than shedding to eventual champion UConn.
Shannon transferred to Illinois from Texas Tech previous to the beginning of the 2021-22 season.
Terrence Shannon Jr. of the Illinois Preventing Illini handles the ball in the course of the recreation in opposition to the Maryland Terrapins at Xfinity Heart in Faculty Park, Maryland, on Dec. 2, 2022. (G Fiume/Getty Pictures)
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Shannon was projected to be a first-round choose previous to the authorized case. The trial is about to start June 10, roughly two weeks earlier than this yr’s NBA Draft.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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