By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on June 10, 2023 An Editorial Opinion The man who taught me exceptional trial skills as a...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said, "Don't let anybody take your manhood." Watkins men live by that creed.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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 6, 2018 On June 4, 1973, Jimmy Ray Hurst, a Lieutenant in the Talladega, Alabama...

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."

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

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

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