It seems pretty harebrained considering all they needed to do to refute it was look in the evidence locker.

She may have wanted to put doubt in the validity of the DNA test which only found limited Kane DNA on the accuser’s shoulders and nails and not in her other areas.

Also an “elaborate hoax”?

When the bag showed up and it looked bad for Kane, DS and most commenters spent plenty of ink trying to come up with various theories on how someone acting on Kane’s behalf tampered with the evidence. Now that it appears that the accuser’s mother lied about the circumstances of how she ended up possessing it, we get…

Go back to Jezebel. Now.

It had the alleged victim’s name on it, which doesn’t prove it’s the bag, but lends credence to it for the conspiracy nuts. While the media is rightfully not reporting her name, I wouldn’t be surprised if people in the community actually knew who she was.

Keep your head up, Eoannou; you’ll never be as bad of a lawyer as you are a Scrabble draw.

I just put this into google translate: lawyerspeak:

I totally believe my client but I’m dropping her case because she is lying.

I have no idea, the lawyer yesterday made it sound like it was for sure the rape kit bag specifically, and the cops seem to be saying specifically they have all their bags intact. Would this be some meta bag that would then be discarded after the evidence got to the police station and was removed from it for testing?

From the description of the bag, it sounds like they have the container that held the evidence while it was transported from the hospital to the police.

I don’t really see that. Women can not lie and not get raped and count that as a win for everyone. In this case, if she lied, she deserves some serious trouble, because lying about rape is despicable and makes life even worse for people who actually are raped as well as for men who are innocent but accused, because…

You’d think so. Except the police say all the bags are present and correct. But the lawyer says the bag is a real bag. So, WTF? I’m kind of glad it didn’t turn out to be like it looked when it was first reported, though, because that was horribly creepy. Now it seems more like stupid.

I think he absolutely has an obligation to state that he stills believes the accuser, even if he doesn’t believe her at all. I think it would be bordering on a serious violation of legal ethics to say he didn’t believe her. That said, you’re right, it is a little bit odd that he didn’t dodge the issue and said he did…

These are so tricky. Do you want it to have happened or not? If it didn’t then she wasn’t harmed but she lied and made Kane look bad. If it did she was harmed and the he gets away with it. Women see this and feel they can’t win. (dad of two girls)

Yeesh.

The Ol mother fakes the rape kit trick. Victims should really talk to their mothers about that...

Eoannou making it clear that he won’t be buffaloed by some Buffalo buffalo.

because the victims mother lies to her attorney?

I am so confused.

Just when you think this case can’t get any weirder, it gets weirder.