My question involves criminal law for the state of: FL

Hello everyone,

I am writing here to help a good friend of mine that is in trouble.

He was drinking with his girlfriend and they got into an argument. His girlfriend was extremely intoxicated. My friend pickup up his video camera when she started throwing stuff at him. He has about an hour worth of video that shows her going crazy. She actually kicked out her car window.

A day later the police shows up at my friends house asking what had happened the night before. They arrest him for domestic violence even though he explains he has a video showing everything. Apparently his girlfriend had cut herself and went to the hospital. She claimed that my friend had caused the wounds and this is why they arrested him.

This is an obvious case of false domestic violence as the video shows everything completely opposite of what she states on the police report.

What is the best thing to do to get the charges dropped before trial? If this is even possible?

She filed a restraining order on him, should he file one for her or is it too late? It's been 3 weeks since the incident. He has court on the 26th of August.

Also, his girlfriend has had 3 prior domestic violence charges against her, but my friend has none, or any criminal record for that matter. Can this be brought up?

Thanks for everyone's help. My friend is just freaking, he has barely any money for a lawyer.