Cris Saavedra says the Governor maligned him by calling him a “bald-headed creature”.
In libel, there is such a thing as “proof of the truth”, and provides a defense where the statement complained of is in itself true.
I hope it is not Saavedra’s position that the Governor was lying when she said that because it might invite the Governor’s lawyers to mark his head in evidence.
And that would make him a “marked” man in the literal sense of the word, and not just in the figurative sense, as he imagined himself to be when he sought the protection of Mayor Tomas Osmeña.
