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COLUMBUS, Ohio — State Rep. Elliot Forhan, who has been battling a civil stalking protection order from his colleague, was just"exonerated" by a Cleveland court, which said the case had no merit and has denied the request.
Rep. Forhan not ruling out lawsuit after privileges revoked due to alleged ‘abusive behavior’ But when it comes to the civil matter, Dyke sided with Forhan, not just denying this request to continue the protecting order but also vacating the previously granted court order. Forhan, an attorney, represented himself during the trial. He never meant to scare her or anyone else, he said.
Forhan has adamantly denied these allegations since they came out — sharing he does not even own a truck. He has also asked for Brent to publish the video and letter since he says he knows they don't exist."Officers asked for but ultimately never received a copy of the referenced letter nor a copy of the referenced video," the city told me.
"He simply wanted to talk to his colleague and so he came over unannounced, knocked on a door and left after two minutes having learned she was not at home," he wrote."Although Ms. Brent and Ms. Bayless used the buzzwords of 'fearful,' 'emotional' and 'afraid' in an effort to convince the court for the need for a protection order, the court remains unpersuaded.
"There was no type of justification for him to show up to my home in the evening — that is not safe at all for someone to unexpectedly show up to a colleague's home, banging at their door for no apparent reason," Brent told me. Brent was a bystander to both, and thus, this doesn't help the case of obtaining a protection order for herself.
"There are people who are culturally and gender-based competent to be able to deal with something like that," Brent said."I don't walk around with security, I walk around by myself. You can't tell someone who is at a public event that you would not take pictures — as a public official.""That is a person's bias being put into this, of how they would feel about something — when this is how I feel," she added.
"This one-two combination made for a very, very biased witness who was willing to stretch the truth and exaggerate for effect in court," Dyke wrote."She showed her true motives when she testified that she wanted Mr. Forhan removed from his state job and removed from the Democratic Party."
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