Nearly four-and-a-half years after prosecutors said a night of drinking turned into a sex assault in Aurora, one of three men accused in the case is still months away from standing trial.
Corderro Pollard, 26, of Chicago, previously pleaded not guilty to multiple counts alleging he had sex with a Joliet woman when she was too intoxicated to consent while they, and others, were at a home near the Aurora University campus in August 2012. His trial was scheduled to begin Tuesday with Kane County Judge John Barsanti presiding over it, but has been reset to begin in mid-June, according to court records.
This is at least the second postponed trial date for Pollard in the last year.
Two other men – Eric Stallworth and Shammrie Brown – were also charged with sex assault shortly after the incident. Stallworth pleaded guilty to unlawful restraint in 2015 and was sentenced to probation and periodic imprisonment. Prosecutors initially accused Brown on the grounds he failed to intervene on the woman’s behalf during the assault, but dropped that case a few months later and instead charged him with misdemeanor battery which remains pending. Brown is listed in court filings as a potential witness for prosecutors.
Court records describe Stallworth, Pollard, Brown and the woman as spending the night drinking together in Naperville before heading to Aurora with a plan to go to the casino. The documents don’t specify how long they stayed, but the woman apparently vomited during the group’s time there. The woman, a single mother, told police she was unsure how she got to the residence on Kenilworth Avenue where Stallworth and Pollard lived at the time, records show.
During a hearing early in the case, an attorney representing Stallworth contended the sex was a consensual encounter.
Dan Campana is a freelance reporter for The Beacon-News