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 .