The case involving the Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane and the woman who has accused him of rape took another hairpin turn on Thursday evening when the woman’s lawyer abruptly stepped down.
One day earlier, the lawyer, Thomas Eoannou, said that a piece of evidence in the case, a paper evidence bag that he said arrived on the doorstep of the victim’s mother, had been tampered with. But in a news conference on Thursday, he said that the facts surrounding the evidence bag had been misrepresented.
“In keeping with my ethical obligations as an officer of the court,” Mr.