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Chicago ice hockey star avoids rape charge
WWOS staff
Patrick Kane, star of the National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks, will not face rape charges over an August incident in New York state involving a woman he met at a nightclub, a court official says.
"The totality of the credible evidence - the proof - does not sufficiently substantiate the complainant's allegation that she was raped by Patrick Kane and this so-called 'case' is rife with reasonable doubt," Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita said in a statement on Thursday.
Kane, 26, a three-time Stanley Cup champion with the Blackhawks, had been accused of raping a woman in his offseason home in the Buffalo suburb of Hamburg early on August 2.
