Professor Fingerhut Featured on NBC 6 on Miami Prosecutor/Public Defender Shortage

Professor H. Scott Fingerhut was featured on NBC 6 South Florida to comment on the critical efforts of our Miami-Dade State Attorney and Public Defender during the current legislative session in Tallahassee to push for additional criminal justice funding to hire and retain prosecutors, public defenders, and their all-important support staff.

“This is our criminal justice system.  It belongs to all of us,” said Professor Fingerhut, “and is our mutual responsibility.  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.”

Watch the clip featuring Professor Fingerhut, here.

Professor Fingerhut is Assistant Director of the Trial Advocacy Program at FIU Law.  He teaches Trial Advocacy, Pretrial Practice, and Criminal Procedure.  He is dually appointed as a Fellow in The Honors College at FIU, where he serves as faculty advisor to PATH, the Honors College pre-law community, and teaches the upper-division seminar Observing Ourselves.

Reach him at 305-348-8095 and fingerhut@fiu.edu.

To find out more about Trial Advocacy at FIU Law, visit law.fiu.edu/trialad.