The attorney for a former Hawkeye football player accused of raping a female athlete in a Hillcrest dorm room filed paperwork Tuesday asking the judge to further delay the pretrial conference and trial.

Abe Satterfield’s pretrial conference is scheduled for Oct. 1; his trial is slated for Oct. 12. He is charged with second- and third-degree sexual abuse.

The trial for Cedric Everson, also a former football player charged with second-degree sexual abuse in connection to the same incident, is scheduled for Nov. 2. But Everson’s attorney, Leon Spies, requested his client’s trial be held after Satterfield’s so a decision to move Satterfield’s hearing would affect Everson’s as well.

Both men are charged in connection with a reported Oct. 14, 2007, sexual assault in an empty Hillcrest room. Both have pleaded not guilty.

Neither Spies nor Satterfield’s lawyer, Des Moines-based Alfredo Parrish, could be reached for comment Wednesday.

— by Regina Zilbermints