title: J. W. Carney Jr.
text: # J. W. Carney Jr.
  
  J. (Jay) W. Carney Jr. is an American criminal defense attorney. He has defended reproductive health clinic shooter John Salvi, Al-Qaeda associate Tarek Mehanna, and mobster Whitey Bulger.
  
  ## Career
  
  Carney began his legal career in 1978 at the Massachusetts Defenders Committee in Boston for five years, and then served as a prosecutor in Middlesex County for the next five years. He has been in private practice since 1989.
  
  