An attorney for the woman who accused Chicago Blackhawks winger Patrick Kane of rape in Erie County, New York, said at a Wednesday press conference that the police evidence bag which would have contained the woman’s rape kit was sent to her mother’s home.
The Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday that attorney Thomas J. Eoannou said the woman noticed a brown paper bag on her doorstep on Tuesday afternoon.
Eoannou gave the media a photograph of the paper bag, which showed the accuser’s name and the initials of the nurse who collected the evidence at the hospital in New York.
Ripped evidence bag of #Kane‘s alleged victim. Her lawyer says it was delivered to alleged victim’s mother. pic.twitter.com/cmknN7YSab
— Jenn Schanz (@JennSchanz4) September 23, 2015
“In my 30 years plus of being both a prosecutor and a defense attorney, I have never seen an evidence bag outside of a police lab, a prosecutor’s office or a courtroom. Let alone find one in the doorway of a rape victim mother’s home,” Eoannou said at the press conference in Buffalo.
Kane plays for the Chicago Blackhawks, but is from Buffalo, New York and keeps a home in the area. He’s currently at training camp in South Bend, Indiana.
Kane was the first overall draft pick in the 2007 NHL Draft. Since joining the league, he has won three Stanley Cups (national championships) with the Blackhawks. He was awarded the 2012-13 playoffs most valuable player award. Kane won a silver medal with the USA team at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.
On Aug. 6, a woman accused Kane of taking her to his home in Hamburg, New York (south of Buffalo) and raping her after they met at a nightclub on Aug. 1 or 2, the Buffalo News reported. The alleged attack left her with bite marks on her shoulder and a scratch on her legs, according to a later report from the newspaper.
The Buffalo News reported on Aug. 15 that an off-duty Buffalo police lieutenant told the newspaper he drove Kane, the alleged victim, her female friend and a male friend of Kane’s to the hockey player’s home in Hamburg. The driver told investigators, “It was a mutual agreement to go hang out at the house.”
Thus far, no charges have been filed, but the woman’s lawyer called for an independent investigation of the incident.
Kane’s lawyer Paul Cambria responded.
“I think my client’s a victim in this case,” Cambria said in an interview with WGRZ on Wednesday afternoon. “As far as who’s the victim, in the end we’ll find out who the real victim is.”
Cambria said no settlement discussions have occurred.
Looks like paper - tho “evidence bag” is largely a euphemism. Some childish mind thinks a random brown paper bag in a random picture is capable of moving at least one potential juror into thinking, Hmmm … certainly looks like bag-like … and it must be somewhere … sooooo…
Then again, we live in a country where Republicans control the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court and the decided majority of state governments, that conducts a critically significant percentage of its voting by paperless & otherwise unverifiable technologies, billionaires own almost the entire governmental process, most public reporting is done by hired hacks, and one major political party’s contest for its nomination for president is being led by a repulsive con artist, and religiotic anti-science former surgeon, and someone who’s destroyed ever business she’s ever run. So - MAYBE!
What the fucking fuck?
That’s not what I would have thought a police evidence bag looks like, at all. Unless the evidence it’s containing is a 40-oz or a PB&J.
According to a quick Google Image search, they can sometimes be paper bags, but all evidence bags have printed labels with a bunch of sections for gathering information.
If I wanted to take a photo of an evidence bag I’d include the label so it, like, actually looked like one. This is odd.
So much for the chain of evidence non contamination.