KATKlownFeet wrote:Sealab2024 wrote:We might have gotten a major steal here. TSJ's stock plummeted due to false allegations, most analysts didn't even really wanna cover him as a prospect and only did so because of his obvious talent. Then dude takes the stand (which is a boss move btw) and shuts the nonsense down just days before the draft. By that time everyone had their slot and his name was suitably dragged through the mud.
There's no telling where he would have gone had the case not interrupted everything but my guess is he would have been an easy lottery pick. Especially in a draft like this one.
Dude needs to work on his playmaking a bit, get better with his right hand and his outside shot, but other than this is a well developed prospect with NBA talent, athleticism, and skill who can play both sides of the floor with gravity.
Hell of a pickup by TC.
How do you know the allegations are false? I am just curious as I haven't followed this case closely and don't really know if the allegations were false. An acquittal means that allegations weren't proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
From the ESPN story:
Former Illinois star Terrence Shannon Jr.'s legal team can show video evidence at his felony rape trial next week to support its claim that mistaken identity might have prompted police to charge the wrong man, a judge ruled Friday.
At a hearing in Lawrence, Kansas, Shannon's lawyers argued that the video evidence they will present during the trial will show another man standing next to the alleged victim the night of the alleged sexual assault at the same bar in Lawrence, which Judge Amy Hanley called "relevant" to the case during her ruling. That "third-party defendant," according to Shannon's legal team, had been accused of sexually touching another woman in a nonconsensual manner two weeks earlier at the bar where the woman in Shannon's case had told police in September that a man had sexually penetrated her with his fingers. She later identified Shannon via Google search.
"Additionally, the defendant, the third-party defendant, to be very carefully precise, the third-party defendant is alleged to have been present at the scene of this case and this alleged crime," Hanley said in her ruling Friday. "The court finds that that evidence is relevant and admissible and the defense will be allowed to present that evidence."
And here is an account from a poster on another forum who attempts to fill in the details:
"Quinn":
So I dug into this case a little bit being I'm a KU alum and that's where this happened.
I do think this was a case of mistaken identity. It sounds like Shannon was there for the Kansas-Illinois football game in September and had attended, likely with Kansas player Kevin McCullar. McCullar and Shannon are likely buddies from their time at Texas Tech together. They went to the bar (the notorious freshman bar) and at some point during the night they were there with other KU basketball players in a basement that is typically tougher to get into and can act somewhat like a VIP where athletes hangout. I've been there. It's packed, sweaty, dark, and loud. At some point later on in the night, the girl was beckoned over by a guy, the incident happened, and it took all of about 30 seconds and then it was over. She later had to identify the guy to police based only on the knowledge of the Kansas basketball players that were there plus the Illinois player (Shannon). She identified Shannon because of his dyed tips in his hair.
What the video evidence likely showed was another guy with dyed tips who played for Kansas basketball for all of 0 minutes before being accused of raping a girl in the dorms, grabbing her. That player (Arterio Morris) was cut from the team before the season. In digging into Morris' rape case, they had discovered that he had been accused of a similar incident 2 weeks prior to the incident naming Shannon as the defendant.
My guess is that it was likely the woman mistook Shannon for Morris in the dark and packed bar. Morris has a long history of legal battles, some of which are sexual violence accusations. That pattern of behavior would much more closely align with him, especially if he was at the bar that night when Shannon was and did the same thing 2 weeks prior.
