Following the recommendation of the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission, which initiated the complaint, the Court agreed to discipline the judge for repeated violations of federal campaign regulations and Florida campaign laws.
Read the Court’s disciplinary order here.
Read the Judicial Qualifications Commission’s Findings and Recommendation of Discipline here.
And read Professor Fingerhut’s comments in the Daily Business Review here.
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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 serves as pre-law faculty advisor and teaches the upper-division seminar Observing Ourselves. Rated AV Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell’s highest peer rating, Professor Fingerhut practices criminal and Florida Bar defense and represents applicants before the Florida Board of Bar Examiners. He is consistently ranked among Florida’s leading criminal defense attorneys, including Best Lawyers in America, and is a three-time FIU Law Professor of the Year.
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.