The potential NBA draft pick was also found not guilty of sexual battery.
Former Illinois basketball star Terrence Shannon Jr. was found not guilty Thursday on rape and sexual battery charges related to an alleged September incident.
A jury in Douglas County, Kan., reportedly deliberated for less than two hours before returning not guilty verdicts on a felony charge of rape and an alternate felony charge of aggravated sexual battery. The outcome arrived less than two weeks before the start of the NBA draft, in which the 23-year-old is a potential first-round pick.
The alleged incident took place in Lawrence, Kan., where Shannon was in town to watch the Illinois football team face Kansas. A woman accused Shannon of grabbing her arm to pull her closer in a crowded bar, then reaching under her skirt to assault her. During a three-day trial in which the woman and Shannon both took the stand, he denied committing those acts and said (via“As we stated in September ’23, we emphatically denied these charges and waited for our day in court,” Mark P.
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