If you were in trouble in the last 45 years in Raleigh, North Carolina or points east, and you had Rick Gammon as your lawyer, you knew you had one of the best.

From a traffic case in District Court to a capital case of murder in Superior Court, from serving as co-counsel in the prosecution of a sitting Lt. Governor to defending a former Governor, Rick has treated them all the same.

Rick is also a great storyteller, and with a gentle sense of humor, he does not disappoint.

Rick Gammon for the Defense - A Remarkable Career!

Dana Stevens - a highly successful screenwriter of feature motion pictures and television.

The Woman King starring Viola Davis

The City of Angels starring Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan

Safe Haven from the book by Nicholas Sparks

For the Love of the Game - Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston

Reckless - a legal drama for CBS

In the works - 28 Summers from the book by Elin Hilderbrand

Back by popular request!

Why would you represent a guilty client?

How can you represent someone charged with murder in the first degree?

How can you be currently representing ten such people?

Why would you do that?

I asked Dick McNeil, a former US Marine, who can tell you the number of months and days he served in Viet Nam, those very questions.

His answers were simple and direct.

He once tried a capital case three times. First time - hung jury.

Second time - hung jury. Third time - Not Guilty.

Dick loves being a criminal defense attorney, a craft he learned well in the military, now practicing in the eastern part of North Carolina.

A fascinating conversation.

What do you do when you are drinking so much that you black out? What do you do when, as result of alcoholism, your life is spiraling out of control?

Geoff Hulse, with the loving support of his wife and law partners, went to a facility in Atlanta for ninety plus days where he began the road back to sobriety and away from the illness of alcoholism.

It has now been over sixteen years since that ride south. It has been, and always will be, one day at a time.

But recovery is possible, and Geoff proves that every day. Listen and see Geoff tell his story of his journey home.

For more than three weeks they came, every night, lines out the door, waiting hours to get a stool at the oyster bar or a table in the dining room or lounge.

Everyone seemed to want one last visit, one last meal, one last memory.

For some of us, we came back the final night, Sunday, March 30 to say hello to friends of some time ago, and then too quickly say goodbye once again.

It was bittersweet. Thanks for the memories.

The story of the 42nd Street Oyster Bar as you have never heard it before...how it came to be what it became.

From its creation in 1987 by Thad Eure, Jr., and Brad Hurley until its doors close on Sunday, March 30.

If you have ever been there, even once, or thought about going there, you do not want to miss this story.

42nd Street Oyster Bar - New Podcast coming Monday, March 31

38 years - a look back

Conversations and pictures with wait staff and management

A look back to my times at the 42nd Street Oyster Bar in Raleigh, first as a loyal and regular customer, then as a host and finally for some time a waiter.

42nd Street is where I learned to start over. It is where I got my life back.

A journey to the past. Thanks for the memories!

Glenn Blackburn was an 18-year-old college freshman in April, 1960, when he started the African Student Program at Wake Forest. His goal was to bring an African student to the United States and present him to the Board of Trustees, saying he wants to become a student. Will you accept him?

It took two years, and shortly after that, on behalf of the College Lecture Series, he was having dinner with Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. and introducing him to a crowd of over 2,000 in Wait Chapel.

Ever the historian, Glenn writes a book on Saving Great Places, stories of the coastal waters of North Carolina, including Bird Island, Kindred Spirits and a Mailbox.

It's all here in a riveting conversation, Monday, March 10.

The Fatal Vision Podcast with James McGinniss, son of Joe McGinniss and Billy Glidden is a multi-episode podcast on the true crime classic and bestselling Fatal Vision, which became the forerunner of the NBC mini- series by the same name.

James and Billy take a journey through the book, reading parts of it at times and talking about Joe's writing at other places.

Episode 12 is when they interview me about the case and Joe. It is a wide open conversation about it all, from start to finish in the amazing summer of 1979.