Expert: Darrin Bell - 3/29/2007

Question
I was involved in a self defense situation, where a man approached me and I felt threaten so I punched the man in the face.  I have many witnesses who saw the altercation.  It turns out when I hit the man, he fell and broke his jaw.  Police came and tried to refrain the individual who was very intoxicated.  It turns out he attempted to file a police report against the two police officers for assualt.  The investigation prove to be that the police did not assault the man, and he is now being charged with filing a police report.  My question is, even though he lied about the report can he still try and follow a lawsuit against me for anything, considering I felt threatened and self-defended myself?

Answer
of course, he can still try to file a lawsuit, that is just the way america is.  filing and winning are two different issues though.  being intoxicated does not help his case at all and since he cannot seem to remember who hit him, that is not good either