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Hi, I'm Nancy Glass. In season two of Burden of Guilt, we heard Jermaine Hudson's story, but his wrongful conviction was not an anomaly in the Louisiana justice system. Today we're going to introduce you to men who shared similar experiences. These are men who maintained their innocence from the very beginning. They were eventually exonerated. They got their names cleared, they got their records expunged. But they would never get back the years of their lives they lost to a system that got it wrong. In this bonus episode, we hear their stories, what happened in the courtrooms that convicted them, the years they spent fighting to prove their innocence, and what it took to finally walk free. In 1992, Glen Davis grandmother got a knock on her door.
Glenn Davis
The homicide division in Jefferson Parish bum rushed my grandma's house and she said when she opened the door, one of the detectives had his gun pointed at her.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
They were asking where Glenn was and they used the name the neighborhood knew him by. Chocolate.
Glenn Davis
Wet chocolate. What Chocolate. You know, that's my nickname. And she said, well, what you looking for him for? He not here. And say they wanted to question me about a murder.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
An alleged drug dealer was shot in a drive by and detectives were looking for Glenn and his two cousins, Larry Delmore and Terrence Myers.
Glenn Davis
At the time, you know, we had these beepers, pagers and my daddy paged me and he was like, man, homicide just left from my mama house looking for you. He was like, what's going on? You killed somebody? And I was like, nah man, I don't know nothing about a murder.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
A murder? No way. Glenn was a good kid. He stayed out of trouble. He had been an athletic superstar in high school.
Glenn Davis
I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, run, track, baseball, year round. My aspirations was definitely to hopefully become one of those athletes because, you know, that was, like, the biggest, most safest, opportune way for somebody to elevate up out of that community.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
Glenn knew that a murder accusation would change everything. His dad suggested they go to the homicide bureau together to clear his name.
Glenn Davis
I was like, all right, cool. Come on, let's go clear this up. When I got to the homicide bureau, you know, they put me in the interrogation room, and I can remember it like it was yesterday. Detective Thurman, he went to talking about the murder. I was like, man, I don't know nothing about no murder. I didn't commit a murder. Then he asked me, he said, do you mind signing these papers and speaking in this tape recorder?
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
An alarm went off in Glenn's head.
Glenn Davis
It was like, man, if I sign those papers, I'm admitting to this murder that Detective Thurman's talking about. They can doctor the tape recorder and make it say, yeah, I committed it, even after me saying, no, I didn't commit it. So I just pushed it all on the floor. I'm thinking, there's only so much that, you know, that they can do to me. They not gonna be able to abuse me and beat on me and all of that. So I told them. I was like, look, cut the chase. Is either one or two things gonna happen. You guys gonna either take me to the parish jail over here in Gretna. Are you going to let me walk out of this door?
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
Police took him to the parish jail. He and his two cousins, Larry and Terrence, were arrested for murder. The three young men were prosecuted on the say so of one eyewitness, someone who said they saw them shooting out of a car window.
Glenn Davis
I'm 18 years old, man. This is the time for me to be transitioning from a boy to a man. But I got to figure out a way to not go to prison for the rest of my life and grow from a boy to a man.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
The three of them were tried together, and they were all found guilty of second degree murder and sentenced to life at the Louisiana State Penitentiary Angola. Glenn's cousin, Larry Delmore, who had also been wrongfully convicted of the murder, vividly remembers the day he was sentenced.
Larry Delmore
I went off on a judge. They handcuffed me, and they put me in a bed to tape my hands and make me hear that sentence. And I refused to hear that sentence. And I'm like, you know, we didn't do this. And I'm cursing, and they're cursing, and it is like. It was a big old outburst, and my mother's crying, and our family Support that's crying. And it was like, take him out to court.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
Court personnel needed to restrain him, but who could blame him for his outburst? He knew he was innocent and that his cousins were innocent, too.
Larry Delmore
When I came back in the courtroom, he grabbed my head, and it was like, you gonna hear this sentence? And. The judge sentenced us to life. And it was like, you took my fucking life. You know how it feel to be convicted of murder. You never shot nobody in your life.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
More than 20 years later, you can hear how much this moment still affects Larry Delmore. When he got to Angola, he felt broken. He didn't see the point of living.
Larry Delmore
I used to just ask God to take my life because it's like, I'm not asking you for no forgiveness for somebody, dude. I lost all my fate. So it seemed like soon as I got through all of that, it was like, I don't care about nothing no more.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
Glenn and Larry were put to work at Angola. You've heard about the hard labor and farm lines there. The cousins endure this labor while knowing they didn't belong there.
Glenn Davis
I was an innocent man thrusted in the land. It was like I was thrown in a time war, and I was thrown back, like, 400 years ago in slavery, because that's what it depicted. That's what it signified. It signified slavery. Being innocent and having to pick cotton and having to take a garden hoe and scrape the grass down to the dirt down pat ways that run for miles. Digging ditches, run for miles. I mean, I had to do what I had to do because I didn't want to crash out to the point to where I couldn't help myself. So I had to stand back and observe.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
Glenn realized he would have to take matters into his own hands if he and his cousins were ever going to be exonerated for the crime they didn't commit. After a few years in prison, Glenn started spending more time in the law library.
Glenn Davis
I applied to work in the law library as an inmate counsel, which is a jailhouse lawyer. And based upon my record, they granted it to me. My job was to assist guys with their cases. I didn't have to go out and pick cotton no more. I didn't have to go cook grits in the morning. And that's when I was able to really dig, because all my time was right there in the law library.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
Rifling through law books and learning from other inmates armed Glenn with a wealth of information. And then one friend who also worked in the law library looked at Glenn's records. And noticed they were incomplete.
Glenn Davis
He said, brother, I only gave you a partial police report. He said, man, your police report could be 500 pages. He said, all they gave you was those 20. He said, Bro, write a letter to the custodian of the records room down there in Gretna. So I wrote that letter and asked them for every document pertaining to my case number. And lo and behold, they sent me a box.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
That box was over a foot tall, filled to the brim with hundreds and hundreds of pages relevant to this case.
Glenn Davis
It was full of pages. Page after page after page. Man, I never saw none of this. I never knew none of this stuff existed. So, you know, I'm sitting there and I'm just going through the pages after pages and I'm like, man, I got to read this stuff. With a fine two combination, it took
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Glenn weeks to go through the evidence that had never been presented by his lawyer at the trial.
Glenn Davis
I caught the chills because if we had these documents at trial, we could have showed the jury like I was an innocent man.
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This was a turning point. Glenn finally had something that could prove his innocence. He just needed someone who would listen.
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Narrator (Nancy Glass)
While working at the Angola Prison Law Library, Glenn Davis taught himself about the legal appeal process. He requested evidence from his case and spent weeks combing through documents he believed proved his innocence. And it wasn't just about overturning his conviction, but also the convictions of his two cousins.
Glenn Davis
I filed my post conviction relief application and like as soon as they got it, they just denied it. They didn't open it, read it, just denied it and sent a letter. You've been denied. I was my own representation at the time. I had to take it up to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and same thing, denied. It took them two weeks. So I took my post conviction up to Louisiana Supreme Court, and it took them about 18 months to deny me.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
But he wasn't giving up. He escalated the appeal to a higher court.
Glenn Davis
That's where the turnaround came in. Now, I was just getting in contact with the Innocence Project, New Orleans.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
Glenn heard about the Innocence Project from another inmate.
Glenn Davis
He telling me about, man, look, I went, you know, met with these lawyers, and he telling me the criteria, and I just took it and wrote them a letter.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
Glenn didn't wait for a reply. He was in the middle of filing another appeal himself. And for the first time, a judge replied with something that wasn't a denial.
Glenn Davis
And the federal judge, her exact words in that order was, you have merit. When she said, I have merit, I thought I had won the lottery. And I sent that order to the Innocence Project. And one of the attorneys at the time came to visit me. And her exact words to me was, man, you hit the lottery.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
Once Glenn started to work with the Innocence Project, he made sure his cousin was on board, too. Here's Larry.
Larry Delmore
He was like, look, I'm doing all this law work. I'm an inmate counselor now. I done learned the law. Let me handle it, and we'll bring you home.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
Here's what the lawyers found. The state's key eyewitness, the one they'd built their entire case around. He wasn't even close enough to see the shooting. That brought his whole testimony into question. But that was just the beginning. Hidden in the files were statements pointing to another suspect, a man named Derek Richardson, who had allegedly told people he was responsible for the murder. Derek drove a car that matched the one witnesses described leaving the scene that night. And the lawyer for Glenn, Larry. And Terrence was also the lawyer for Derek on another case. A clear conflict of interest. The Innocence Project was able to uncover all of this.
Larry Delmore
When they told me that they had been investigating and they had went and when they said they had talked to a few of the victim families and this and that, I knew it was serious.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
In October 2004, an appeals court ordered a hearing. A chance to reexamine the convictions. It took four years for that hearing to finally happen. At that point, Glenn and his two cousins had been in prison for 14 years.
Glenn Davis
I felt like I was going to die there. But, you know, the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other shoulder. The angel put me in the chokehold. And he was like, look, you done come too far, and it's going to happen for you. Just be patient. And that's what I did.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
And when that hearing finally got underway four years later, the judge found the evidence pointing to Glenn's innocence had been withheld. On February 16, 2007, that judge reversed Glen Davis conviction. Glenn's cousins, Larry Delmore and Terrence Myers filed their own post conviction petitions based on the same evidence. And their convictions were reversed a year later. All three men received 480,000 doll in compensation from the state. Unfortunately, cousin Terrence died nearly two years after his exoneration. Glenn wants more than money. He wants the state to do better.
Glenn Davis
The state doesn't give apologies. They don't. I haven't seen it yet. Nobody apologized to me. I don't even care though they could keep their apology. I'm just elated at the fact that I'm alive and I'm free.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
His cousin Larry shares the same sentiment, the absolute joy of getting his freedom back. He's traveled the world and he's been able to reconnect with family.
Larry Delmore
When you see all of these people that you love and you respect and they see the man that you become, that gives you the joy. And now I'm healing.
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But even in his happiest moments, Larry still struggles with what's been taken from him. Trauma resonates.
Larry Delmore
I put myself back in that prison and that's that mental prison. And then at times I done been so depressed after I've been doing good, I've been feeling good and it be like, man, I wish God take me now where I could go before I get into depression or get in the thing and I start being a non believer. But my faith in God, I wouldn't do it. I done embrace so many people because so many people embrace me. And I got a list of people I can call late at night if I need to talk.
Narrator (Nancy Glass)
Glenn is enjoying his life, but he's always on the lookout for anything that would threaten his freedom.
Glenn Davis
Freedom is everything. Just to be able to go abroad, you know, freedom is I can go open my refrigerator when I want. Freedom is I don't have to vote on my tv. This is mine. I watch what I want. With your freedom, you able to branch out, you able to, you know, be that octopus. I can do this and I can do that. That's what freedom is for me. And anybody who try to do anything to put me in a position where my freedom gonna be relinquished, I promise to never talk to him.
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Theme: Stories of wrongful conviction, the fight for justice, and redemption after exoneration in the Louisiana justice system.
In this bonus episode, Nancy Glass delves into the harrowing experiences of Glenn Davis, Larry Delmore, and Terrence Myers—three men falsely convicted of murder and sentenced to life at Angola Prison. Through powerful firsthand accounts, the episode explores their early lives, the moments leading to their wrongful convictions, the emotional and physical toll of incarceration, and the complex, years-long struggle for exoneration. The episode examines how systematic failures, dubious eyewitness testimony, and a lack of access to critical evidence cost them decades—time they can never reclaim, even after their names were cleared.
"The homicide division in Jefferson Parish bum rushed my grandma's house...one of the detectives had his gun pointed at her." — Glenn Davis (04:07)
"They handcuffed me, and they put me in a bed to tape my hands and make me hear that sentence. And I refused...It was a big old outburst, and my mother's crying..." — Larry Delmore (08:03)
"You never shot nobody in your life." — Larry Delmore (08:50)
"It was like I was thrown in a time war, and I was thrown back, like, 400 years ago in slavery, because that's what it depicted." — Glenn Davis (10:07)
"It was full of pages. Page after page after page. Man, I never saw none of this." — Glenn Davis (12:43)
"If we had these documents at trial, we could have showed the jury like I was an innocent man." — Glenn Davis (13:09)
"When she said, I have merit, I thought I had won the lottery." — Glenn Davis (18:13)
"The state doesn't give apologies...I'm just elated at the fact that I'm alive and I'm free." — Glenn Davis (21:22)
"When you see all of these people that you love and you respect and they see the man that you become, that gives you the joy. And now I'm healing." — Larry Delmore (21:51) "At times I done been so depressed after I've been doing good...But my faith in God, I wouldn't do it." — Larry Delmore (22:14)
"Freedom is everything...I can go open my refrigerator when I want...Freedom is I don't have to vote on my TV. This is mine. I watch what I want." — Glenn Davis (23:04)
The episode is intimate, raw, and powerful—alternating between factual narration and the unfiltered voices of Glenn and Larry. The men express pain, anger, loss, and, ultimately, hope and gratitude for their regained freedom. Nancy Glass interweaves their quotations with context, always centering the lived experience of her guests.
"Freedom Is Everything" confronts listeners with the devastating human cost of wrongful convictions. It serves both as a cautionary tale about systemic injustice and a testament to the resilience of those who keep fighting for truth, justice, and a second chance at life.