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FL: homenaje al matador

By Skelly

Fine eulogy for Louis O. Frost, one of the old bullfighters of public defense, from the Fernandina Beach News Leader:Ministering society's castawaysThe man we called Lou, or sometimes LOF, died last week at age 76 after a long fight with stomach cancer. When I went to work for him as an investigator - Lou was talking about retiring. It took him almost 20 more years to make up his mind. Lou hung around long enough to see kids he hired right out of law school turn gray-haired. That's how much he loved his vocation of serving the indigent accused... (I)ndigent defense work isn't a job, it's a ministry. Our former boss ministered to society's castaways for nearly 40 years. The Good Book says, "Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be filled...continue to full post

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