New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice: A Practical Manual

The only book of its kind! No other guide explains all the criminal statutes that define crimes and disorderly persons offenses—it undertakes the monumental task of deciphering and explaining what the criminal statutes mean, showing how to interpret them for lawyers and judges, and generally making the criminal codebook a more interesting and meaningful tool. The author is not only an accomplished criminal lawyer, but also an acclaimed filmmaker and author; film credits include: The Drum Beats Twice, Tinsel Town, Pride & Loyalty, and Rules for Men. KEY TOPICS: Statutes covered include: offenses involving danger to the person, offenses to others, offenses against public administration, offenses against public order, health and decency, and offenses involving organized crime and organized crime activities. For any and all police academies and NJ police departments (all municipalities, sheriff departments, county police, corrections departments, state police), prosecutors' offices, state attorney general offices, all NJ judges and attorneys. Its complete appendix of the names, addresses, and phone numbers of every police department, municipal court, superior court, and every lawyer and judge in New Jersey makes this an invaluable reference.

Kenneth Del Vecchio is a criminal lawyer who has tried over 400 cases, serving as both a prosecutor and defense attorney. He is also a critically acclaimed filmmaker whose movies have won awards and received national and international distribution. In addition, Del Vecchio is a published novelist.

As a lawyer, Del Vecchio is credited with being one of the youngest attorneys in New Jersey history to try and win a felony jury trial. Since then, Del Vecchio has handled literally thousands of criminal cases as both a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney.

Often headlined as a Renaissance Man, Kenneth Del Vecchio has been the subject of hundreds of national magazine and newspaper articles. He has been called The Triple Threat: Attorney, Author, Filmmaker by print and television media.

His films, primarily focusing on criminal law, include The Drum Beats Twice, Tinsel Town, Pride & Loyalty and Rules for Men.

In addition to his filmmaking career, Kenneth Del Vecchio is a published novelist, having authored the criminal suspense novels Revelation in the Wilderness and Pride & Loyalty. He resides in the Borough of North Haledon with his wife Francine.