Prosecutors have dropped the breach of peace charge against Lucian Wintrich, the conservative pundit who grabbed a woman after she took papers from his podium during an appearance last month at the University of Connecticut, his lawyer said on Monday.

“The state realizes that my client was in fact the victim of a theft,” Norm Pattis, who represents Mr. Wintrich, said in a phone interview.

Mr. Wintrich, who writes for The Gateway Pundit, was arrested on Nov. 28 after speaking at a university event hosted by a campus Republican group, where he was videotaped confronting the woman who snatched his papers.

She was later identified as an adviser at a Connecticut community college.

The scuffle happened as he was wrapping up his nearly hourlong speech — which The Associated Press said was titled “It’s O.K. To Be White.”