Charles F Clark Jr.

Charles Clark is a graduate of Rutgers College and the University of Miami School of Law. He practiced criminal law as a Monmouth County Assistant Prosecutor for over 12 years. Mr. Clark began his legal career in 1995 where he started in the Appellate section of the Prosecutor's Office.

Upon joining the Family section (Juvenile crime/Domestic violence) of the Prosecutor's office in 1996, Mr. Clark handled hundreds of juvenile cases ranging from drug charges to first degree Armed Robberies and Aggravated Sexual Assaults. Mr. Clark not only successfully represented the State at trial on many of these juvenile cases, but he also tried a number of domestic violence restraining order violation cases and the related weapons forfeiture cases before graduating to the felony trial division.

Over the next several years, Mr. Clark honed his trials skills as a member of the Trial Division. He successfully prosecuted adult defendants for crimes such as Murder, Armed Robbery and Aggravated Assault as well as drug related crimes.

In 2003, Mr. Clark was promoted to the Sex Crimes/Child Abuse Unit where he successfully prosecuted defendants for crimes such as Aggravated Sexual Assault, Attempted Child Luring, and Endangering the Welfare of Children.

In 2006 Mr. Clark was promoted to Director of the Asbury Park Satellite Office by Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis A. Valentin. As the Director of this subdivision of major crimes, Mr. Clark reviewed all of the indictable cases originating in Asbury Park. He was also responsible for providing legal advice to the Asbury Park police department and for supervising the Major Crimes Investigative Unit of the Prosecutor's Office in a number of high profile homicide cases including a number of gang related homicides. Mr. Clark was one of only three prosecutors entrusted with supervisory control of major crimes investigations in the Prosecutor's office before his departure in December of 2007.

For over twelve years Charles Clark developed his trial skills in the unique environment afforded by a Prosecutor's Office setting. He has successfully tried hundreds of criminal cases including numerous Murder and Aggravated Sexual Assault cases. During the course of his 12 plus years in the Prosecutor's office, he had also been given the responsibility of teaching criminal law to new police recruits at the police academy and lecturing other Assistant Prosecutors on trial related techniques.

In December of 2007, Mr. Clark left the Prosecutor's Office to start the firm of Clark and Clark with his law partner and former Assistant Prosecutor Susan Schroeder Clark.

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