LAWRENCE
The Douglas County District Attorney’s office on Wednesday dismissed the misdemeanor battery charge against Kansas basketball player Carlton Bragg and filed a battery charge against Saleeha Soofi, the woman who claimed Bragg punched her.
The decision by Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson came after the Lawrence Police Department obtained surveillance video, according to a release from the prosecutor’s office.
Bragg’s attorney, Hatem Chahine, argued in a motion filed Wednesday that his client acted in self defense. Before the charge was dropped, Bragg, 20, pleaded not guilty after he was accused of striking Soofi, 19, in the face and pushing her down stairs in the early morning hours of Dec.