Right now the government only pays your attorney fees if you beat a murder charge in self-defense with a gun. Everywhere else? You’re broke even when innocent. Former prosecutor and judge Alex Thomason says make the state pay fees on every loss—watch prosecutorial abuse collapse overnight. Jerremy Alexander Newsome and Dave Conley grill him on unchecked power, trash law-school training, plea coercion, and the human wreckage left behind. This one change could gut the 97 % plea machine and actually restore justice.

Timestamps:

• (00:00) The one crime where the state pays your lawyer if they lose
• (02:04) Meet Alex Thomason – prosecutor, judge, Apprentice final-four, apple farmer
• (03:18) Law school fails – why grads can’t try cases
• (06:00) Storytelling wins trials, not motions
• (12:17) Prosecutors hold all the power – and almost never face consequences
• (20:12) Plea deal coercion – how 97 % of cases die without a fight
• (31:00) Systemic rot and real reform ideas
• (35:35) Human cost of wrongful convictions
• (41:14) Why jury trials are vanishing
• (46:40) A real malicious prosecution horror story
• (50:24) Make the state pay attorney fees on every loss – game over for bad cases
• (59:02) Lightning round with Alex

Connect:

• Alex Thomason – valorlawgroup.com