J. W. CARNEY, JR. is a criminal defense attorney with the Boston firm of Car-ney & Bassil. He was a public defender in Boston for five years, and an assistant district attorney in Cambridge for the next five years. He founded Carney & Bassil with Janice Bassil in 1989. Mr. Carney is a contributing author to the treatises Massachusetts Criminal Practice and Take the Witness: The Experts Speak on Cross-Examination, and is editor and coauthor of Massachusetts Evi-dence: A Courtroom Reference. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and listed in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Carney was a member of the Governor’s Judicial Nominating Commission for eleven years, and has been cochair of the Lawyers’ Assistance Strike Force of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers since 1992. Mr. Carney’s mentor is Horace Rumpole of the Old Bailey.(October 09)