Q: can I use an affidavit to prove defamation of character occurred? I deleted the original message by accident.
want to use the person who made the defamatory remark my friend and I read to backtrack to the source and prove my ex, who placed a restraining order against me, did so with malice, with the purpose of causing harm and then continued to abuse me by spreading lies about my person. I was ill prepared for the restraining order hearing and it was granted in his favor. I want to use this to prove it should have never been granted, that he only intended to harm, and further prove my point that he used it to benefit him in a trial against him for battery against my person. It was his only "evidence" in the trial, and it was never mentioned in the original restraining order, despite one of the questions being whether or not there was any additional or pending trials where we were both a party. I know that technically I wasn't a party in the battery case, but the state of Florida was, I believe, representing me.
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