Florida Bar President-Elect William J. Schifino, Jr., has appointed Professor H. Scott Fingerhut Chair of The Florida Bar Criminal Procedure Rules Committee — a yearlong term to begin following the Bar’s annual meetings in June in Orlando.
This is Professor Fingerhut’s second opportunity as committee chair, having previously served from 2007 to 2008.
The Criminal Procedure Rules Committee is one of 10 standing court Bar rules committees whose function — based on legislative, judicial, lawyer, and civilian referrals — is to craft new rules of procedure and to reshape existing rules.
“Voluntary bar service is a high privilege, to be sure. But more than that it is our great responsibility,” Fingerhut said. “Each of us – lawyer, law teacher, and law student alike – is obliged to ensure that our legal machinery is transparent and humane, that we are wise to the illusion of separateness, that we not suddenly become aware of the lateness of things, and, importantly, that in this business of liberty we have chosen we continue to fend — in the words of H.T. Smith – for the least, the last, the lost, the left out, and the looked over.”
Professor Fingerhut is Assistant Director of the FIU Law Trial Advocacy Program. He teaches Trial Advocacy, Pretrial Practice, and Criminal Procedure. Professor Fingerhut is also a Faculty Fellow teaching in FIU’s Honors College and serves as its Director of Prelaw Programs.