Shannon, a star player for the University of Illinois and an NBA draft prospect, is charged in an alleged incident in September.
University of Illinois basketball standout Terrence Shannon Jr. appears in court May 10, 2024, in Lawrence, Kansas. A judge ordered him to stand trial on a rape charge. Shannon, 23, of Champaign, is accused of committing sexual assault on Sept. 9 in Lawrence. One of the basement bar areas at Lawrence, Kansas’ 105-year-old Jayhawk Cafe is called the “Martini Room.
Lawrence police said in an affidavit that the 18-year-old told a detective that Shannon put his hand under her skirt, grabbed her buttocks and penetrated her vagina with his finger while at the bar. , persuading a judge to overturn his university suspension on the grounds that his extended absence from basketball violated his due process rights and potentially jeopardized millions of dollars from his NIL contract and future earnings in the NBA.
Shannon was named a third-team All-American this season. But his NBA aspirations could hinge on the outcome of his rape trial. Some basketball writers predict he could be taken Shannon testified that his group met some KU basketball players at a tailgate before the game. After the Illini’s defeat, the trio went to the dormitory that houses the basketball team, where, Shannon testified, he stayed for about an hour, drinking shots of Crown Royal.
By then, his 18-year-old accuser was back at her apartment, she testified, tears in her eyes as she searched her phone for a photo of the man she said assaulted her.Hours earlier, the 18-year-old woman had been at the KU football game with a friend. The two stopped home, she said, went to Jayhawk Cafe, left for a second bar and then returned to Ohio Street for another visit to The Hawk.
The entire encounter lasted maybe 30 seconds, she said. And at first, she said she didn’t have a problem with him touching her over her clothes. In bed, replaying the events of the night, she said she grabbed her phone to search for the man’s identity. She knew the Jayhawks’ opponent that night had been the Illini, so, she said, she started scanning photos of football players for both teams. Remembering that he had been near a KU basketball player, she pulled up photos of the KU team and then the Illini squad.“Immediately when I saw that picture, I knew it was him,” she told the court.
In one motion, Shannon’s attorneys wrote that a Kansas Bureau of Investigation report on DNA evidence found no male DNA in swabs taken from the 18-year-old’s vaginal and external genital areas. Both sides asked the court to weigh in on whether the state’s DNA evidence, or the report from the defense’s forensic scientist, could be introduced at trial — a motion known in legalese as a Daubert hearing.
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