Velez v. Carbonett

I «CARTER, C.J.

In 1996 Harold “P. J”. Velez, Sr., discovered that his attorney, Alva Carbonette, allegedly failed to introduce “the most important piece of ‘Evidence’ ” at a court hearing in 1990. Mr. Velez then sued Mr. Carbonette for legal malpractice. Mr. Carbonette, represented by Madeline S. Carbonette,2 filed a peremptory exception raising the objection of liberative prescription, which was heard and granted on March 26, 1997. Over two years later, on March 29, 1999, Mr. Velez sued Ms. Car-bonette, alleging that at the 1997 hearing she slandered his name and business. Ms. Carbonette…