Areas of Practice
Police misconduct and civil rights areas of practice
Spinella & Associates are experienced CT trial attorneys who have special experience in the area of police misconduct and civil rights litigation. Spinella & Associates have brought well over 100 police misconduct cases against various police departments throughout Connecticut and are poised to do so whenever necessary to vindicate abuse of citizens.
Spinella & Associates have won numerous significant jury verdicts and obtained countless settlements in cases involving police and municipal misconduct. They are known throughout Connecticut as having special experience in such cases and in fighting especially hard to vindicate the rights of people who have been the subject of such misconduct. These CT civil rights attorneys make full use of the existing federal civil rights statutes in pursuing, vindicating and deterring police and municipal misconduct.
As such, criminal attorneys from all over the state of Connecticut, who do not handle police misconduct cases themselves, refer such claims on a regular basis to Spinella & Associates. Police claims are routinely referred early on since it is important that experienced police misconduct attorneys work hand in hand with the criminal attorneys on a particular case so that the manner in which the criminal case is handled will not jeopardize a successful outcome in the related subsequent civil case. Moreover, early referral of police cases frequently helps aid in a successful outcome in the criminal case.
In addition to bringing police misconduct cases on the part of the plaintiffs harmed by the police, Spinella & Associates lawyers have also represented numerous police officers in employment and civil rights matters. Spinella & Associates strive to do everything within their power to ensure that the average citizen who is a victim of a civil rights violation has a place to go to make the violator pay.