Overview
- Alvin Bragg’s office acknowledged an "unacceptable error" in missing a discovery deadline that led a judge to dismiss the criminal case in July.
- The Thomas More Society, representing Savannah Craven Antao, says it will file a civil lawsuit to seek damages.
- NYPD arrested Brianna J. Rivers after video of the April 3 Harlem assault went viral, and the initial second-degree assault charge was later reduced to a misdemeanor, according to the victim’s lawyers.
- Craven Antao says she was not notified of the dismissal and learned of it from Rivers’ Instagram posts.
- The attack left Craven Antao with a facial laceration requiring emergency room stitches and about $3,000 in medical bills, while Rivers has asserted she was antagonized and called for release of unedited footage.