Joey Jackson

Joey Jackson is an American criminal defense attorney, commentator, and former prosecutor. He worked as a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney's office before becoming a defense lawyer, and is a legal analyst who has contributed to CNN and other local and national media outlets.

Education Jackson received a BA from SUNY Brockport, an MPA from University at Albany’s Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy in 1992, and later a JD from Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University before being admitted to the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA). As a law student, Jackson served as editor for the Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal. Jackson represented Juan Rodriguez, a man charged in a hot car case in which his two infant twins perished.