ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell will speak Thursday in Orange County to mark her first year back in office.
In addition to looking back on the year and outlining “what is needed to ensure the legal system can meet the demands of our growing region,” Worrell also plans to address efforts within the Ninth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office to bolster staffing and manage growing caseloads, according to a news release.
Worrell spent much of 2025 in a back-and-forth with Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier. One of their earliest notable clashes in 2025 came that April, when Uthmeier criticized Worrell’s policy requiring law enforcement to make arrests in most cases before sending them to her office for possible prosecution and offered to lend prosecutors from his own office to help with a backlog.
From there, leading up to the November election, Uthmeier would hold several more events to publicly criticize Worrell in different cases.
Worrell said that Uthmeier was doing this to build “another political witch hunt to overturn the will of the voters,” referencing when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis removed her from office in 2023 while accusing her of “refusing to faithfully enforce the laws of Florida.“ Worrell got the job back in the following November election after defeating Andrew Bain, whom DeSantis appointed to replace her.
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News 6 plans to ask Worrell about the suspect in a triple homicide that occurred over the weekend in Osceola County. Court records show that the suspect, 29-year-old Ahmad Bojeh, was arrested in 2021 after allegedly shooting at a person and at random vehicles in a Kissimmee gas station parking lot, but was later acquitted by reason of insanity during Worrell’s first term.
Uthmeier has already begun to criticize Worrell in Bojeh’s case, doing so Monday in a social media post, accusing her office of not aggressively challenging Bojeh’s insanity defense and allowing him to go free.
We will stream Worrell’s remarks live at the top of this story.