Bend - Bad Sporters https://www.badsporters.com News Blogging About Athletes Being Caught Up Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:37:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Mistrial declared in second IU South Bend rape case https://www.badsporters.com/2018/04/20/mistrial-declared-in-second-iu-south-bend-rape-case/ https://www.badsporters.com/2018/04/20/mistrial-declared-in-second-iu-south-bend-rape-case/#respond Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:37:22 +0000 http://www.badsporters.com/?p=3664 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 […]

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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.

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