Book Review Connecticut Criminal Legal Forms: Richard M. Marano of Marano & Diamond. the Atlantic Law Book Co. (west Hartford, Connecticut). 1999. 486 Pp. $135.00

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Connecticut Bar Journal Volume 73.

73 CBJ 141. BOOK REVIEW CONNECTICUT CRIMINAL LEGAL FORMS: Richard M. Marano of Marano & Diamond. The Atlantic Law Book Co. (West Hartford, Connecticut). 1999. 486 pp. $135.00

BOOK REVIEW CONNECTICUT CRIMINAL LEGAL FORMS: Richard M Marano of Marano & Diamond. The Atlantic Law Book Co (West Hartford, Connecticut). 1999. 486 pp. $135.00

Attorney, Rich Marano, has authored and compiled a mountain of criminal motions and related legal forms and placed them together in a three-ring binder entitled "Connecticut Criminal Legal Forms". (Atlantic Law Book Company, 1999.) This volume is comprehensive. It covers everym thing from soup (Order for Hot Meals, p. 338) to nuts (Order for Competency Examination p. 383), from A (Appearance. p. 17; Alibi, p. 251; Acquittal p. 336) to almost-Z (Youthful Offender, p. 61).

If you ply our trade in this state, Rich's book is one of the tools you have to have. It touches all of the bases. The motions and forms within its covers, Rich will agree, do not all bear the stamp of Louis Brandeis or even Alan Dershowitz. What the book does do is put in one place a collection of all relevant criminal forms, almost every conceivable motion and other useful tools. For example, there are retainer letters (p. 5, 8); a list of available diversionary programs (p. 58); applications for victim compensation (p. 81); motion to secure testimony for a witness from another state (p. 312); restoration of...