TALLAHASSEE - Civil charges were brought against the state Attorney's Office for the Second Judicial Circuit and its Felony Division Chief, Lorena Vollrath-Bueno, for alleged law malpractice including one count of common law negligence, common law abuse of process and malicious prosecution.
According to documents filed on Feb. 5 in the Leon County Circuit Court, plaintiff Rebecca Green says that the malpractice happened after she made a Facebook post about her son's suicide that occurred in February 2017.
The post was in regard to a woman who alleged that the plaintiff's son, Nate, had assaulted her. The suit says that Vollrath-Bueno threatened to have Green jailed for the post. Despite the state attorney's office abating the charges against Nate, Vollrath-Bueno repeatedly pursued the plaintiff, contacting other attorneys to have them inform Green that she would be jailed for her post, the suit says.
Vollrath-Bueno allegedly interfered with the returning of the plaintiff's deceased son's belongings and initiated criminal charges against Green since she could not prosecute the deceased.
On the day of Nate's funeral, Vollrath-Bueno had a petition for civil action to restrain the harassment of a victim served to Green at her home, despite the defendant in the harassment case having died and charges being abated, the suit says.
For the defendants' alleged ruthless actions, Green is seeking damages in excess of $30,000 for each of the counts listed above, in addition to legal fee restitution. She is represented by Marie A. Mattox, PA, of Tallahassee.