Brent Allan Winters grew up on a farm in Southeast Illinois, served in the Air Gunnery Division aboard Aircraft Carrier USS Coral Sea, and then as a team member of Mobile Diving Unit One, Pearl Harbor, Detachment 319.

Brent studied under the late William Franklin Fratcher, Nuremberg prosecutor, legal historian, and long-time editor of Scott on Trusts, who fueled & sparked Brent's interest in the worth of our common-law ideals and trust law.

Brent has worked with lawyers in other States and countries. Practicing law by first principles has lead him into mining law, trust law, civil trials, and criminal defense.

Brent has written the following books: 

U.S. Constitution & Declaration of Independence:  A Common Lawyer Comments–Clause by Clause (220-page pocket-sized booklet). 

Excellence of the Common Law: Contrasting the Common Law & Civil-Law Traditions (958-page reference book with about 1000 indexed Scripture references). 

Don't Talk to the Police: the Reasons Behind Our Right to Remain Silent (pocket booklet).

Juror's Handbook: A Common Lawyer Comments (pocket booklet).

(Common law) stands as a monument slowly raised, like a coral reef, from the minute accretions of past individuals, of whom each built upon the relics which his predecessors left, and in his turn left a foundation upon which his successors might work”

-Learned Hand