Report: Terrence Shannon legal team requests to submit mistaken-identity evidence

Former Illinois guard Terrence Shannon’s legal team has requested to submit mistaken-identity evidence at a Friday hearing, according to ESPN’s Myron Medcalf. He is facing a felony rape charge after an alleged incident in Kansas.

Shannon’s lawyers are asking a judge to admit a video of another man standing near the alleged victim that same night. The man was previously accused of sexual assault at the bar two weeks prior, and the video appears to show him at the “exact” location at the night and time the woman alleged Shannon sexually assaulted her.

The filing, according to Medcalf, said a “third-party defendant” was investigated for the alleged actions against the other woman, but the charges were dropped.

“Terrence Shannon, by and through his attorneys Tricia A. Bath and Thomas J. Bath, Jr., and, pursuant to the 14th Amendment due process clause and the 6th Amendment compulsory process and confrontation provisions, hereby moves this court for a pre-trial ruling on the admissibility of evidence related to an identified third-party defendant who is alleged to have committed a similar sexual assault in the same location less than two weeks prior to the alleged assault in Mr. Shannon’s case and who was present [as evidenced by video] within a couple feet of the precise location of the alleged touching in the case at [the] bar,” the filing said, via ESPN.

This story will be updated.

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