By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 15, 2019 On March 8, 2019, a federal jury in Birmingham, Alabama convicted me on all ten counts of c...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on March 9, 2019 Yesterday, a federal jury in Birmingham, Alabama convicted me on all ten counts of conspirac...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 29, 2019 Brigadier General Royal Hatch was a retired Air Force officer. A native of Wellesley, Ma...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on January 3, 2019 From September 25 through October 9, 2002, I headed a three-person arbitration panel in Bi...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on December 15, 2018 A lot of people have asked me about the bogus wire and bank fraud charges federal prosec...

By: Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on December 2, 2018 The courageous Limestone County, Alabama Circuit Court judge who set aside a guilty verd...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on November 30, 2018 Yesterday’s indictment of my son and me on federal fraud charges provides an excellent o...

By: Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on November 28, 2018 Every day, police officers across America don the uniform, leave home for work, place t...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on October 19, 2018 On November 13, 1979, I was sworn-in to a four-year term as the youngest city council mem...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on August 12, 2018 Clarence Norris was one of nine "Scottsboro Boys" who were arrested in 1931 in Paint Rock,...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on June 20, 2018 I am not a dog owner, but a lot of my friends are. Until recently, I did not know much about...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on May 3, 2018 Yesterday, President Donald Trump said out loud what many insiders have known for years: The U...

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 looking into my profes...

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

By: Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published (via Facebook) on May 9, 2014; Updated and Republished on March 2, 2018 “We done shot the wrong nigger”, scr...

By: Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Originally Published (via Facebook) on April 26, 2014; Updated and Republished on February 19, 2018 In 1942, Ms. Eliza...

By: Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published on February 14, 2018 Every day, police officers across America don the uniform, leave home for work, place t...

By Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Published (via Facebook) on June 10, 2016; Updated and Republished on February 13, 2018 I often refer to my law school ...

By: Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Originally Published (via Facebook) on April 28, 2014; Updated and Republished on February 12, 2018 They beat some of ...

By: Donald V. Watkins ©Copyrighted and Originally Published (via Facebook) on April 13, 2014; Republished on February 12, 2018 Nearly Thirty-four years ago, ...