Charles B. Morton
Adjunct Professor of Lawmortonc@nsu.law.nova.edu
Education
B.A., Rollins College, 1972J.D., University of Florida, 1976
CHARLES (CHUCK) B. MORTON, JR is the “Chief Assistant State Attorney” for the State Attorney’s Office, 17th Judicial Circuit, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He has served as a prosecuting attorney in that office since December of 1976. Before becoming the “Chief Assistant”, he served in both trial and administrative positions for his office. His immediate position before his promotion to “Chief Assistant” was as the “Assistant State Attorney in Charge of the Homicide Trial Unit" from 1985 to 2005 where he tried numerous high profile homicide cases. Mr. Morton completed his undergraduate work at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida and received his law degree from the University Of Florida School Of Law in Gainesville, Florida. He frequently lectures for his own state prosecuting attorneys association as well as for other prosecuting attorneys organizations. He has lectured for the National College of District Attorneys (NCDA) on a variety of topics. Mr. Morton received the NCDA’s Lecturer of Merit Award in 1994 & 2006. On numerous occasions, he has served as an invited faculty member for the NCDA at the National Advocacy Center (NAC) in Columbia, South Carolina. He also has served as a faculty member in many trial advocacy programs sponsored by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA). Mr. Morton has been a longstanding adjunct law professor here at the law school teaching courses in trial advocacy skills. He also teaches in the law school’s Criminal Justice Clinic. The law school honored him as its first “Adjunct Professor of the Year in Lawyering Skills Courses” during the 2007-2008 academic calendar year