Introducing: Burden of Guilt s2
Wrongful Conviction
Lava for Good Podcasts
4.4 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
In 1999, an 18-year-old bartender named Bobby Gumpright told a lie that sent an innocent man, Jermaine Hudson, to prison for 22 years. Burden of Guilt explores the harsh realities of Jim Crow-era Louisiana in 1898 that helped seal Hudson’s fate—and the unlikely friendship that has grown between the two men since Gumpright came forward with the truth.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Nancy Glass, host of the Burden of Guilt Season 2 podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | This is a story about a horrendous lie that destroyed two families. |
| 0:11.4 | This is a story with twists and turns that will leave you breathless. |
| 0:15.9 | It is the sentence of this court that you serve 99 years. |
| 0:21.6 | It starts more than 25 years ago when New Orleans was overwhelmed with gun violence. |
| 0:28.1 | Late one night, 18-year-old Bobby Gumpbright became the victim of a random crime. |
| 0:35.5 | He pulls the gun and tells me to lie down on the ground. |
| 0:41.8 | Police were determined to find the man terrorizing the West Bank of New Orleans. |
| 0:47.3 | They said, do you recognize any of these men? |
| 0:50.2 | I pointed at one and I said, that's him. |
| 0:53.7 | He identified 20-year-old Germain Hudson as the perpetrator. I pointed at one and I said, that's him. |
| 0:58.4 | He identified 20-year-old Germain Hudson as the perpetrator. |
| 1:03.1 | Germain was tried and convicted with Bobby as the star witness, |
| 1:08.5 | and he was sentenced to 99 years in the notorious Angola prison. |
| 1:13.1 | I got to be dreaming or something. |
| 1:15.2 | I'm like, Lord, this can't be real. |
| 1:17.3 | I thought it was a mistaken identity. |
| 1:20.8 | How did 18-year-old Bobby Gumpright convinced the police, the prosecutors, and a jury |
| 1:23.8 | that Jermaine Hudson should be in prison? |
| 1:27.3 | I couldn't stop myself. |
| 1:29.1 | After lying for so long, I learned the best lie is partial truth. |
| 1:36.0 | I didn't do this. |
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