Law Offices of Gina A. Amoriello

11/18/2025

NOT GUILTY verdict today in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in a case in which my client was facing life imprisonment for murder, gun charges and tampering with evidence

08/21/2025

Gratified by the successful result in this motion for my client, Julien Giraud III, argued last week

Judge Brann's decision comes in response to a filing on behalf of New Jersey defendants challenging Habba's tenure and the charges she was prosecuting against them.

04/08/2025

Mohammed Yesuf's parents confronted Samir Austin shortly before he was sentenced to decades in prison for Yesuf's murder.

09/11/2024

Defendant acquitted of Murder…convicted of lesser offense of Voluntary Manslaughter

On Sept. 3, Alice M. Wilson was found guilty of the shooting death of her wife, Eileen Adams, inside their Northeast Philadelphia home.

08/22/2024

The case of a horrific torture and killing of a 22-year-old, found mutilated in a trash can five years ago, reached its final chapter on Thursday as Lashawna Dantzler, the woman who started it all, was sentenced.

04/18/2024

New details emerge after Ameen Hurst, a man accused of four murders and of escaping from Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center almost a year ago appeared in court Tuesday and was held on all charges related to the escape.

04/03/2024

John Nusslein, 19, was the oldest of three teens who attacked at least four deliverymen and stole their cars after luring them to locations in Northeast Philadelphia with fake food orders.

03/01/2024

NOT GUILTY jury verdict today in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas wherein my client was charged with felony gun possession offenses (Commonwealth v. Theodore Magwood, CP-51-CR-0003135-2023)

01/31/2024

A Gloucester County man was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to filing tax returns for a fake company for three years, authorities said.

08/18/2023

Attorney Gina Amoriello’s tenacious attention to detail resulted in the prosecution and the Court recognizing that her client was not responsible for the tragic death of a child and that the case against her client should be resolved more appropriately based on the actual conduct by her client, with a sentence that reflected such. While of course she remained sensitive to the tragedy in the surrounding circumstances, Ms. Amoriello’s efforts resulted in a fair disposition of the case for her client compared to the original homicide charges.

One of three men linked to the 2020 shooting death of 7-year-old Zamar Jones in West Philadelphia has pleaded guilty as part of a negotiated deal with prosecutors.

05/25/2023

Check out this CNN article quoting Ms. Amoriello regarding one of her high profile cases

Nasir Grant and Ameen Hurst planned and executed an escape from a Philadelphia prison with the help of a look-out on the inside, a hole in the prison fence and a getaway car. They are now back in ciustody after a ten-day investigation that spanned 3 states and led to charges for 4 additional people.

04/17/2023

NOT GUILTY jury verdict today in a homicide trial wherein Ms. Amoriello’s client was charged with First Degree Murder, Violations of the Uniform Fi****ms Act and Possession of an Instrument of Crime (Commonwealth v. Charles O. Johnson, CP-51-CR-0006003-2021, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas)