Reception | 5:30 p.m. |
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Choir Rehearsal | 5:45 p.m. |
Dinner | 6:00 p.m. |
Meeting | Following Dinner |
Program | Following Meeting |
The location of this meeting will be at the Sheraton Hotel in Needham, MA
J.W. Carney, Jr. | Defense Attorney |
Rev. Lawrence Kanter | Pastor First Baptist Church, Abington |
Rev. Lloyd Patrick Clarke | First Baptist Church, Newton |
Mr. Robert Gaffney | Director Boston Baptist Social Union |
Mr. Chris Edwards | Vice President Boston Baptist Social Union |
Welcome | President Joseph Marcello |
Song | "How Great Thou Art" |
Invocation | Rev. Lawrence Kanter |
Dinner | |
Business | |
Special Music | BBSU Men'sChoir |
Program | “Untold Stories From the Whitey Bulger Trial” J.W. Carney, Jr. |
Benediction | Rev. Lloyd Patrick Clarke |
Members are encouraged to invite propective members as guests of the BBSU to this meeting.
Defense Attorney J.W. Carney, Jr. will speak about the trial of Whitey Bulger.
J.W. Carney, Jr. is a criminal defense attorney in Boston with Carney & Associates. He began his career in 1978 as a public defender in Boston for five years, and then as an Assitant District Attorney in Middlesex County for the next five years. He has been in private practice since 1989. Jay is a contributing author to the treatices Massachusetts Criminal Practice: Take the Witness, The Experts Speak on Cross-Examination, and The Best Lawyers in America Since 1998. Jay has tried over 170 major felony cases in the Superior and Federal Courts, and most recently represented James “Whitey” Bulger in his Federal trial.
He has been a Fellow since 1996 of the American College of Trial Lawyers, which is the most prestigous invitation-only bar association in the United States. He is a past president of the Boston College Law School Alumni Association, has been appointed to the oversight Criminal Justice Act Board by Federal Judges of Massachusetts, and is a past officer of the Boston Bar Association. He served for eight years on the Judicial Nominating Commission, which is a 20-member group that advises Governors on the appointment of judges in Massachusetts.