By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on April 28, 2018 I am not a dog owner, but a lot of my friends are. Until recently, I...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on April 26, 2018 On May 26, 1999, I filed my application for a bank charter with the...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on April 25, 2018 For the fourth time in my career, I made a trip to a grand jury that...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on April 21, 2018 After months of trying to get in front of a federal grand jury in...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on April 12, 2018 On March 14, 2018, my attorney sent federal prosecutors in the...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on April 11, 2018 In their zest to investigate my business and personal affairs, federal...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on April 9, 2018 My businesses work closely with the U.S. State Department in the...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on April 8, 2018 State and federal prosecutors were not interested in charging Robert...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on April 6, 2018 On June 4, 1973, Jimmy Ray Hurst, a Lieutenant in the Talladega, Alabama...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on April 1, 2018 On March 30, 2018, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Municipal Court Judge Rickey J....

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 31, 2018 Without commenting on whether the death of Adam Bailey is or is not...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 30, 2018 Today is Good Friday. It is also the day a Tuscaloosa, Alabama...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 24, 2018 On March 22, 2018, Matrix, LLC, a Montgomery, Alabama-based “dirty...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 22, 2018 On March 20, 2018, I published an article on how the defamation lawsuit...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 20, 2018 On November 13, 2017, Montgomery-based consulting firm Matrix, LLC,...

On December 2, 1975, an unarmed Bernard Whitehurst was summarily executed by Montgomery, Alabama police officer Donnie Foster behind an abandoned house for no justifiable reason. This article is the story of Whitehurst's murder and the police department's unsuccessful effort to cover it up. This story is known as "Alabama's Watergate."

Next to securing a full and complete pardon in 1976 for Clarence Norris (the last known surviving “Scottsboro Boy”), my work in solving Private Johnson’s murder has been the second most satisfying accomplishment in my 45-year legal career. When I read an article three years ago about Private Johnson’s tragic death, I immediately knew something was not right about the circumstances surrounding her death. To this day, no one has challenged the factual findings in my Private J

On July 19, 2005, Army Private First Class LaVena Johnson died on a military base in Balad, Iraq amidst mysterious circumstances. All of the physical and forensic evidence available to military investigators suggested she was murdered. However, these investigators shamelessly chose to disregard this glaring evidence and classified her death as a suicide. The totality of evidence surrounding Private Johnson’s execution-style murder strongly suggests that her killer was General

The military personnel involved in the cover-up of Army Private LaVena Johnson's 2005 murder never thought anyone would care enough about a 19-year-old low-ranking black soldier on a military base in Iraq to break this criminal case wide open. They were terribly wrong.

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published (via Facebook) on January 31, 2016; Updated and Republished on February 24, 2018 Army...