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done a little bit of everything … from domestic work to property work to contested successions.  I’ve done some personal injury work, I’ve done some personal injury defense work and I’ve done criminal defense work … I’ve been a prosecutor.  So in all, I’ve practiced in all areas of the law … when people come to court, even lawyers … it’s a stressful situation ... They get nervous and they all need to be treated with respect.  You know, the courtroom is the one place where it should not matter if you have ten dollars or a million dollars in the bank – you ought to be treated with dignity and respect and you ought to get an equal shake.<ref name=bpt>{{cite web|url=http://bossierpress.com/26th-district-judge-race%E2%80%88charles-jacobs/|title=26th District judge race: Charles Jacobs|work=''Bossier Press-Tribune'' |date=July 23, 2014|accessdate=July 4, 2015}}</ref></blockquote>

done a little bit of everything … from domestic work to property work to contested successions.  I’ve done some personal injury work, I’ve done some personal injury defense work and I’ve done criminal defense work … I’ve been a prosecutor.  So in all, I’ve practiced in all areas of the law … when people come to court, even lawyers … it’s a stressful situation ... They get nervous and they all need to be treated with respect.  You know, the courtroom is the one place where it should not matter if you have ten dollars or a million dollars in the bank – you ought to be treated with dignity and respect and you ought to get an equal shake.<ref name=bpt>{{cite web|url=http://bossierpress.com/26th-district-judge-race%E2%80%88charles-jacobs/|title=26th District judge race: Charles Jacobs|publisher=''Bossier Press-Tribune'' |date=July 23, 2014|accessdate=July 4, 2015}}</ref></blockquote>

In 2017,  [[plaintiff]]s James Wheat and Danny Brinson, after their arrests in [[Bossier City]] for violating a state statute forbidding panhandling, filled a [[class action]] lawsuit in the U.S. District Court against Bossier Parish Sheriff [[Julian Whittington]] and all judges of the 26th Judicial District Court, including Chief Judge [[Parker Self]] and Judge Jacobs. Wheat and Brinson allege that Bossier Parish unjustly jails defendants who cannot pay for [[bail]] or the required $40 fee to the office of the [[public defender]]. Nor does Bossier Parish permit defendants to seek a lowering of the bail amount, which is instead automatically set by the court. The suit claims that the parish has for years violated a "bedrock principle of our legal system that a person cannot be detained or imprisoned solely for their inability to pay a fee. Such an incarceration violates the substantive due process and the [[Equal Protection Clause]] of the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]].”<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2017/03/21/lawsuit-claims-violation-constitutional-rights-impoverished/99467604/|title=Lawsuit: Bossier Parish routinely violates rights of poor|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|author=Sarah Crawford|date=March 21, 2017|accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ksla.images.worldnow.com/library/4fcc84a0-2727-4274-9bd8-a676452413e8.pdf|title=''James M. Wheat and Danny Brinson v. Judges Mike Craig, Jeff R. Thompson, Jeff Cox, E. Charles Jacobs, Mike Nerren, and Parker Self and Sheriff Julian Whittington''|publisher=KSLA-TV Images|date=March 20, 2017|accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</ref>

In 2017,  [[plaintiff]]s James Wheat and Danny Brinson, after their arrests in [[Bossier City]] for violating a state statute forbidding panhandling, filled a [[class action]] lawsuit in the U.S. District Court against Bossier Parish Sheriff [[Julian Whittington]] and all judges of the 26th Judicial District Court, including Chief Judge [[Parker Self]] and Judge Jacobs. Wheat and Brinson allege that Bossier Parish unjustly jails defendants who cannot pay for [[bail]] or the required $40 fee to the office of the [[public defender]]. Nor does Bossier Parish permit defendants to seek a lowering of the bail amount, which is instead automatically set by the court. The suit claims that the parish has for years violated a "bedrock principle of our legal system that a person cannot be detained or imprisoned solely for their inability to pay a fee. Such an incarceration violates the substantive due process and the [[Equal Protection Clause]] of the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]].”<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2017/03/21/lawsuit-claims-violation-constitutional-rights-impoverished/99467604/|title=Lawsuit: Bossier Parish routinely violates rights of poor|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|author=Sarah Crawford|date=March 21, 2017|accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ksla.images.worldnow.com/library/4fcc84a0-2727-4274-9bd8-a676452413e8.pdf|title=''James M. Wheat and Danny Brinson v. Judges Mike Craig, Jeff R. Thompson, Jeff Cox, E. Charles Jacobs, Mike Nerren, and Parker Self and Sheriff Julian Whittington''|publisher=KSLA-TV Images|date=March 20, 2017|accessdate=June 16, 2017}}</ref>