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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The attorney for the accuser in the Patrick Kane rape investigation has dropped the accuser as a client over&amp;nbsp;misrepresentations&amp;nbsp;of an evidence bag involved in the case.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On Wednesday,&amp;nbsp;Buffalo attorney Thomas&amp;nbsp;Eoannou&amp;nbsp;said at a press conference&amp;nbsp;that the evidence bag was anonymously delivered to the accuser\u2019s mother\u2019s home and had been ripped open.&amp;nbsp;Eoannou&amp;nbsp;said he went to great lengths to confirm the evidence bag was authentic, adding that \u201Csomething seriously has gone amiss.\u201D He called for an independent investigation by the FBI or another law enforcement agency into the breach of evidence.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Following&amp;nbsp;Eoannou\u2019s&amp;nbsp;Wednesday press conference, Erie County police&amp;nbsp;said&amp;nbsp;all of the evidence in the case was \u201Caccounted for in its original packaging.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Speaking at another press conference on Thursday,&amp;nbsp;Eoannou said, \u201CI no longer have the confidence in the manner and means in which that bag came to my office.\u201D\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;\u2022 McCann: Possible legal fallout in wake of latest development&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kane\u2019s attorney, Paul Cambria, held a press conference on Thursday night to respond to&amp;nbsp;Eoannou\u2019s dropping the accuser as his client. Cambria reiterated, as he did on Wednesday, that tests had cleared Kane of wrongdoing and added that the misrepresentations of the evidence bag had \u201Ccompletely undermined\u201D the investigation.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cambria added that he was \u201Cperfectly comfortable\u201D relying on Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita III to investigate the evidence bag misrepresentation.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kane has not been charged with any crime in the case, which began after the woman accused Kane of sexually assaulting her in his hometown of Hamburg, N.Y., on Aug 2.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last week, Kane denied the accusations at a press conference and said he was \u201Cconfident\u201D he would be cleared. He is participating in training camp with the Blackhawks, who have said they will respect the legal process.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A grand jury hearing originally scheduled for Sept. 8 was delayed, reportedly to allow attorneys for each party time to negotiate a settlement. Kane\u2019s attorney, Paul Cambria, denied that any settlement talks took place.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Mike Fiammetta&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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