SOUTH BEND — A jury could not come to a verdict and a mistrial was declared Thursday for the second former Indiana University South Bend basketball player accused of rape.
Phillip Corthen, 20, was charged with two counts of Level 3 rape. A jury found him not guilty on the first count, but couldn’t come to a decision on the second. Corthen could now be heading for a new trial on that second count.
Corthen and fellow basketball player Joseph Bannister, 21, were both accused of raping a woman in February 2017 while she was unconscious in Bannister’s on-campus apartment. Bannister allegedly sent two videos of the assault to other basketball players through the social media platform Snapchat.
Bannister was found not guilty of rape last week after a jury deliberated for about 40 minutes. Corthen will return to court for a May 1 hearing.