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Can I sue my father for attacking my mother and me? My father was in and out of my life and so in the year of 2009, he decided to be part of my life. He decided to move right around the corner from my mom which is his ex wife. Everything was going good, he would come by my mother's house and the two got along fine. So one night we went out to eat and have fun for my mother's birthday. We left the restaurant and as we got close to her house we decided to pay my dad a visit because my cousin wanted to see him because it had been a long time. So I figured it would be okay to see him. When I knocked on the door, I asked him would it be okay if my cousin to say hi and that my mom too. He said it was OK so they came over and we talked and laugh. Soon his wife came and started screaming at us and asking why we were there. My dad flipped and slammed the door in our faces. My mom got mad and yelled and my dad opens the door and attacks her. He was choking her and I got scared so I and my cousin tried to get him off of her. Well he snapped and punched me in my eye and made me fall to the ground. Then he grabbed a bat and started name calling and swinging a bat. I got so mad and hit and broke his window with my shoe. By that time my mom was trying to get me to stop but the police came. They accused my mom of hitting me and she didn't. We all went to jail and they never asked our side of the story, they just arrested us because we were on his property. When we went to court, they would not pull up the tapes or show my picture of my black eye. I was just wondering is there anything we can do to prove our innocence. Can we sue him and the police for defamation? I never been in trouble in my life and I am 26 years old and still haven't been in no trouble since the incident.

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No way I’d get in the middle of this. He’ll say one thing, you’ll say another, the others will say something slightly different and no fact finder will know what the facts are so they will essentially pick and choose what facts make some sense and no one will win. My advice is to move-on in life. 

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