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Former Illinois basketball star Terrence Shannon Jr. will stand trial for first-degree felony rape and felony sexual aggravated battery next month, a Kansas judge ruled on Friday.
The decision came at Shannon's preliminary hearing in Douglas County, Kansas. Judge Sally Pokorny ruled there was probable cause for the case to go to trial, and it will begin on June 10.
'Our legal team is neither shocked nor disappointed by the outcome of this event,' Mark Sutter, one of Shannon's attorneys, said in a statement.
'A preliminary hearing is a procedural process that merely speaks to the threshold of evidence and whether a question of fact may exist for a jury. It has
