Shannon legal group seeks to admit brand-new evidence

• Myron Medcalf, ESPN

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The legal group for Terrence Shannon Jr., the NBA prospect who is set up to go on trial next week on a felony rape charge for a supposed incident at a bar in Lawrence, Kansas, will ask a judge to consider the possibility that prosecutors have actually charged the incorrect male at a Friday early morning hearing that could show to be a major development in the case.In a new court filing Thursday, the lawyers for Shannon asked a judge to admit video evidence that reveals another man, who had actually formerly been implicated of sexually attacking another woman at the exact same bar 2 weeks earlier, standing near the supposed victim in the “exact” place on the very same night and at the exact same time in September when she stated Shannon had actually sexually assaulted her and penetrated her vagina with his fingers.Per the filing, the “third-party defendant” had been investigated by police for his alleged actions against the other woman but the charges were consequently dropped.Editor’s Picks

1 Associated “Terrence Shannon, by and through his attorneys Tricia A. Bath and Thomas J. Bath, Jr., and, pursuant to the 14th Modification due procedure provision and the 6th Change compulsory process and confrontation provisions, thus moves this court for a pre-trial ruling on the admissibility of evidence associated to a recognized third-party offender who is alleged to have committed a comparable sexual attack in the very same location less than two weeks prior to the alleged attack in Mr. Shannon’s case and who existed [as evidenced by video] within a couple feet of the exact area of the declared touching in the case at [the] bar,” the filing states.Shannon was jailed

in December and briefly removed from the Illinois guys’s basketball group before he returned after missing 6 games and led the group to the NCAA competition. The woman at the bar who has actually accused him of sexually assaulting her discovered his image through a Google search before she contacted police after the alleged incident.The new filing in the event specifies that a cops investigation showed that”

no male DNA was discovered in the vaginal or external genital swabs drawn from the alleged victim on the date of the supposed incident and that no other male DNA discovered on the alleged victim’s thighs, buttocks, or underclothing could be matched to Mr. Shannon.”On the defense team’s very first attempt to get proof of another guy who ‘d been standing near the alleged victim on the night of the alleged incident admitted, a judge ruled that the video footage was “unconfined speculation.”A new judge, however, will allow Shannon’s legal team to present its case Friday morning.Shannon is ranked 31st among NBA potential customers, per ESPN.com. Kansas star Hunter Dickinson and NBA prospect Kevin McCullar Jr.

are expected to testify in Shannon’s defense during his trial next week, per court records.