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Areas of Expertise
Spinella & Associates' areas of criminal expertise include the following:
- DWI: Spinella & Associates have handled hundreds of Connecticut DUI cases involving driving while under the influence, and manslaughter with a motor vehicle while intoxicated, with excellent results. We are experienced Connecticut DUI attorneys at the trial level, but also in handling administrative cases before the CT Department of Motor Vehicle hearing officers.
- drug possession and sale
- habeas corpus actions
- revocation of parole
- negotiations before arrest
- grand jury testimony
- alternatives to incarceration
- entrance into diversionary programs such as accelerated rehabilitation, youthful offender, alcohol education program, community labor
- serious criminal cases involving use of force such as assault and battery and rape
- larceny and theft
- perjury
- burglary and other felonies
- misdemeanors and traffic violations
- plea bargaining and bond and sentencing hearings
- related considerations such as the bringing of potential civil rights actions springing from the arrest and the effect of the criminal case on related civil cases
- considerations relating to possible deportation
- homicide
- white-collar crimes including larceny by false pretenses, embezzlement, bribery, individual and corporate fraud, tax evasion, RICO violations, mail and wire fraud, banking crimes, forfeiture, criminal unfair trade practices
- appeals of all kinds in state and federal court