Florida Bar President-Elect Ramon A. Abadin has re-appointed Professor H. Scott Fingerhut as vice chair of The Florida Bar’s Criminal Procedure Rules Committee. Professor Fingerhut will now serve another one year term.
The Criminal Procedure Rules Committee is one of 10 standing court Bar rules committees whose function, based on legislative, court, lawyer or civilian referral, is to craft new rules of procedure as well as reshape existing rules.
“There is no greater privilege, or purpose, than to serve,” said Fingerhut, “to know, by day’s end, you’ve done more good than harm, to come from a place of gratitude, to answer a calling. That’s how the criminal law sings to me. To be sure, not everything in life is about criminal justice. But in criminal justice, every thing is about everything. For how a society treats its outcasts, the least among it, says perhaps the most about the type of society it is and yearns to become.”
Professor Fingerhut is the Assistant Director of FIU Law’s Trial Advocacy Program. He teaches Trial Advocacy, Pretrial Litigation and Advocacy and Criminal Procedure. Professor Fingerhut is also a Faculty Fellow teaching in FIU’s Honors College and serves as its Director of Prelaw Programs.