Anthony Spinella
Attorney
Location: Manchester, Connecticut
Phone: 860-649-4400
Fax: 860-645-7900
Email:
Anthony Spinella is an experienced trial attorney with over 11 years of courtroom experience. Attorney Spinella has litigated more than 50 jury and court trials to verdict and has been successful in more than 95% of those cases. He is currently co-counsel representing plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit filed in federal court claiming that over 100 insurance companies have engaged in a concerted scheme to deny coverage for failing basement walls.
Attorney Spinella graduated from Providence College and attended the University of Connecticut School of Law where he was an Associate Editor of the Insurance Law Journal. After graduating with a Juris Doctorate degree in 2003, he became a research clerk for the superior court judges in the State of Connecticut. Attorney Spinella became a Deputy Assistant States Attorney where he spent more than eleven years prosecuting and trying cases on behalf of the State of Connecticut, concluding his work as a Senior Assistant States Attorney. He served as a prosecutor assigned to the New Haven and Hartford Judicial Districts and went on to prosecute cases all over the state for the Statewide Prosecution Bureau of the Chief States Attorney's Office.
Attorney Spinella has experience in all criminal matters, including: drug trafficking, domestic violence, sexual assault, driving under the influence, larceny, kidnapping, assault, child pornography, computer crime, embezzlement, fraud, child abuse, motor vehicle violations and murder. He lives in Wethersfield where he coaches ice hockey and is a parishioner and lector at The Church of the Incarnation.
Areas of Practice
- Criminal
- Drug Trafficking
- Domestic Violence
- Sexual Assaults
- Driving Under the Influence
- Larceny
- Kidnapping
- Assault
- Child Pornography
- Computer Crime
- Embezzlement
- Fraud
- Child Abuse
- Motor Vehicle Violations
- Murder
Litigation Percentage
- 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Bar Admissions
- Connecticut, 2003
- U.S. District Court District of Connecticut, 2015
Education
- University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut
- J.D.
- Law Journal: Insurance Law Journal, Associate Editor
- Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island
- B.A. cum laude
- Honors: With Honors
- Major: History
Representative Cases
- State Vs. Sherman, 127 Conn. App 337 (Superior Court 2011)
- State Vs. Legrand, 129 Conn. App 239 (Superior Court 2011)
- State Vs. Burns, 2010 WL 1612206 (Superior Court 2010)
- State Vs. Reynolds, 2010 WL 1224620 (Superior Court 2010)
- State Vs. Rodriguez, 146 Conn. App. 99 (Superior Court 2013)
- State Vs. Popeleski, 291 Conn. 769 (Superior Court 2009)
- State Vs. Sunila, 98 Conn. App 847 (Superior Court 2006)
- State Vs. Griswold, A.C. 35743 (Superior Court 2013)
- State Vs. Kirby, A.C. 34862 (Superior Court 2012)
- State Vs. Stanley, A.C. 35600 (Superior Court 2013)
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Connecticut Bar Association, Member
- Manchester Bar Association, Member
Past Employment Positions
- Superior Court Legal Research, Clerk, 2003 - 2004
- Superior Court, Deputy Assistant State’s Attorney
- Superior Court, Senior State’s Attorney