Miles Bridges’ domestic violence charges are DROPPED due to ‘insufficient evidence’ after Hornets forward sat out entirety of 2022-23 season and served NBA suspension
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Criminal charges related to a domestic violence case against Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges were dropped Tuesday due to “insufficient evidence,” according to court documents.
Bridges was facing three charges for an alleged violation of a domestic violence protective order on Oct. 6, 2023, child abuse and damage to personal property.
The state said in a Charlotte Mecklenburg County Court filing that prosecutors would be “unsuccessful at trial.” The woman who accused Bridges gave conflicting stories about what happened, authorities said.
“Given the lack of sufficient evidence necessary to overcome the inconsistency of these accounts, the State would not be successful at trial,” according to court documents signed by prosecutor Samantha Pendergrass.
Supreme Court documents say when police officers responded to a call, they found a woman and her children in a vehicle with a damaged windshield. She initially told police that another woman in the house had caused the damage, but told them a few days later that it was Bridges who did the damage.
The Hornets’ Miles Bridges allegedly violated a domestic violence protection order
Bridges can be seen shooting above Toronto Raptors center Jakob Poeltl during a game last week
The woman later told prosecutors she wasn’t sure how her car was damaged, court documents show.
Bridges was scheduled to appear in court on February 20 to answer these charges.
He sat out the entire 2022-2023 NBA season as a result of the June 2022 domestic violence case. Bridges was accused of assaulting the mother of his children in Los Angeles.
He pleaded no contest in November 2022 to one felony count of injuring the parent of a child, agreeing to do so in exchange for three years of probation and no jail time.
Bridges, 25, was also ordered to complete 52 weeks of parenting classes, 52 weeks of domestic violence counseling and 100 hours of community service as part of the agreement.
Prior to the plea, Bridges faced three counts of assault – one to which he pleaded no contest, and two others for child abuse under conditions or circumstances likely to cause serious bodily harm or death – and up to 11 years in prison.
Bridges missed the first 10 games of this season as part of a league-imposed suspension. He was officially suspended for 30 games in April, with the NBA ruling that 20 games of his suspension had already been served.
Bridges, who will become an unrestricted free agent after this season, is averaging 20.3 points and 7.6 rebounds per game for the Hornets this season.