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SANFORD Comedian Roseanne Barr shouldn't have to pay damages to George Zimmerman's parents, even though she posted their address on Twitter, because what she wrote was true and newsworthy, she claims in new court paperwork.

Last month, a judge refused to dismiss the Zimmermans' lawsuit against her, so last week, her lawyers filed new paperwork.

This time, they put forward a dozen reasons why Circuit Judge Melanie Chase should throw it out. Some are the same ones used by news organizations when they're sued for defamation.

The facts she tweeted "are constitutionally protected," wrote her lawyer Hal Litchford of Orlando, "because they are truthful, newsworthy."

They also involved public figures, he argued George Zimmerman's parents: Robert Zimmerman Sr. and Gladys Zimmerman, a retired couple in Lake Mary.

And Barr did not tweet private facts, Litchford argued. She posted pieces of information that were easily accessible through Seminole County property records and the phone book.

Her tweets also didn't cause any "cognizable damages," Litchford wrote.

That is not what the Zimmermans allege in their suit, filed March 10. They accuse Barr of trying to incite a "lynch mob" and forcing them to move out in the middle of the night and live in hiding for months.

She posted the tweet March 29, 2012. Robert Zimmerman Sr. told the Orlando Sentinel two weeks earlier that his family was already living in hiding.

Barr's tweet came a month after George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old, in Sanford.

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George Zimmerman, the acquitted shooter in the death of Trayvon Martin, faces a Seminole circuit judge Nov. 19, 2013, in Sanford, Florida. Joe Burbank-Pool/Getty Images

ORLANDO, Fla. - George Zimmerman denies throwing a wine bottle at his ex-girlfriend in his latest run-in with authorities since being acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teen, in 2013.

Zimmerman says in a police report released Monday that in the confrontation with his ex-girlfriend, he didn't throw a bottle at her nor destroy her cellphone as she claimed. Instead, he says, he was only trying to prevent her from entering his home.

Zimmerman was arrested Friday evening in Lake Mary, Fla. and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Police officers say they heard the sound of glass breaking at the home while on patrol and saw broken glass in the driveway.

According to CBS affiliate WKMG, police officers say they saw a woman get in her car and drive away from the home without her headlights on, which caused them to pull her over.

The woman told officers she had been dating Zimmerman for about two-to-three months, and claimed that Zimmerman threw a wine bottle at her and threw her cell phone, shattering it, as a result of an argument they were having, according to the police report.

Officers indicated in the report that the woman was very emotional.

Police said minutes after the incident, they found a broken wine bottle in the driveway, but Zimmerman was no longer there.

When he was finally located later that evening, he denied the fight but was arrested anyways. He appeared in court Saturday, where a judge set his bond at $5,000, which he later posted. He was ordered to have no contact with the alleged victim and to stay out of Volusia County and turn over any firearms in his possession, according to WKMG.

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