The attorney for Kansas basketball player Carlton Bragg argued in a motion filed Wednesday that his client acted in self defense.
Bragg, 20, pleaded not guilty to a charge of misdemeanor battery after he was accused of striking his 19-year-old girlfriend in the face and pushing her down stairs in the early morning hours of Dec. 9.
The motion by attorney Hatem Chahine, filed in Douglas County District Court, says Bragg was at a party at the Delta Upsilon fraternity house near the KU campus when the alleged victim, a 19-year-old KU student, grabbed his arm around midnight walked him into a stairway, where she accused him of sleeping with her best friend.