[shawnee_]

The headline of the article is misleading. A guy who has a job as in public defender's office cannot promptly pay off his $400K in student loans due to the fact that his wages in the public defender's office are ~ $12/hr and he has a daughter. The Ohio Bar is attacking his "Character & Fitness" for not pursuing the kind of legal profession that would enable him to earn the kind of money that people who work for private law firms typically make, and ignores the intangible value he's "paying back" to society by working for a public defender.

What is the value of defending years of freedom for those people who wouldn't otherwise get legal representation, who might and spend 30 years in jail as an innocent person?

http://www.startribune.com/nation/112809234.html

http://www.innocenceproject.org/know/

[reader5000]

Its probably misleading cause you misread it. His loans are 170k, reasonable for law school graduate, and C&F has nothing to do with present or future career decisions.