Caroline Turner served as a public defender in New Jersey courts for ten years before entering private practice in December 2017.  She is an experienced trial lawyer, having tried dozens of cases as a public defender.  During her time as a public defender, she defended everything from homicide to white collar crime. Caroline is currently a trial lawyer with the firm Swartz Culleton, PC, where she has tried eight cases-primarily medical malpractice-since joining the firm.

In her application, Caroline wrote, “as a public defender, I witnessed the gamut of criminal justice abuses from police lies, brutality, and racial profiling, to prosecutors bent on getting a conviction regardless of whether the evidence leads them to believe the defendant is guilty, to defense attorneys who would rather plea their clients out than fight for them at trial, doing the absolute minimum to defend their clients.”  She is reform-minded and discussed reducing reliance on cash bail, increasing transparency in the courtroom, and capping the length of probation.

To learn more, visit turner4judge.com.