FL: eulogy for a good appellate p.d.

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Public defender Doug Brinkmeyer dies at 56

Attorneys don't get rich as public defenders. But they enrich the lives of others.

That's how people remembered Doug Brinkmeyer, 56, after he died early Thursday morning after a yearlong battle with cancer. Brinkmeyer, a 1975 graduate of Florida State's law school, spent his entire professional career as a public defender...