John Wayne Hudson’s Testimony

John Wayne Hudson (“Cowboy”)

Trial testimony differs from initial statements and he was in a room with other government witnesses immediately preceding testimony at trial.

In previous statements, Hudson denied supplying the knife and expressed anger over his two year sentence in solitary for his role in the incident.  He denied this statement at trial.

Pre-trial Hudson stated “the black dude is a psycho:  he just came up to the white dude and started stabbing him.”  He also denied this statement in the trial.

P.112, Hudson says he was awakened by Branch yelling for a knife. He says he felt “threatened by Branch – just the way he approached me with a knife in his hand.” The video shows Hudson outside his cell, waiting for Branch 6:44:52.

He goes on to say he immediately left the unit and complied with officers instructions to go to handball court.  Then he states Branch singled him out by saying “ Cowboy, I killed that m-f-ing n*…I killed him.” Was he out in the recreation yard? If so, how could he hear this and why was the only one to hear it? Why wasn’t the distance between handball court and entrance to unit investigated? Guards transporting Branch out of the unit did not hear this statement.

p.117 – Hudson denies discussing Rule 35 sentence reductions  with the prosecutor…but one year later, he received a 10 year Rule 35 sentence reduction.  He is also a convicted sexual predator in the state of Florida.

The Government is going to have some liability when these offenders are released back into the public.