LAWRENCE, Kan. — Prosecutors dropped a felony rape case towards former Kansas basketball participant Arterio Morris on Tuesday, citing inadequate proof whereas submitting a movement in Douglas County District Court docket to hunt its dismissal with out prejudice.
Morris was charged final August and dismissed from the Jayhawks’ program after an incident report got here to mild detailing an alleged rape that occurred at McCarthy Corridor, which homes the boys’s basketball staff together with different residents. The prison criticism alleged {that a} sexual assault involving an 18-year-old occurred Aug. 26.
Morris was not named within the incident report, however he was subsequently suspended from the staff after which dismissed.
Morris had transferred to Kansas regardless of going through a misdemeanor assault cost in Texas, the place he spent his freshman season enjoying for the Longhorns. In keeping with Frisco police, Morris was arrested after officers had been known as to his ex-girlfriend’s home, the place she advised police that he had grabbed her arm, pulled her off a mattress and harm her neck.
Morris entered a no-contest plea to a Class C cost in that case and was ordered to pay a $362 effective.
Morris was a top-20 recruit out of Kimball Excessive Faculty in Dallas. He signed with the Longhorns and appeared in 38 video games, serving to Texas beat Kansas within the Large 12 title recreation and advance to the Elite Eight of the NCAA event two years in the past.
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