Clarence Lee Brandley (September 24, 1951 – September 2, 2018)[1] was an American man who was wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of Cheryl Dee Fergeson in 1981 and sentenced to death.
Brandley was working as a janitor supervisor at Conroe High School in Conroe, Texas when the 16-year-old student Fergeson was a visiting athlete from Bellville, Texas.[2] Brandley was held for nine years on death row.
After lengthy legal proceedings and appeals that reached the Supreme Court of the United States, Clarence Brandley's conviction was overturned and he was freed in 1990. After his release, Brandley was involved in further legal proceedings over child support payments that had accrued over his time in prison. He filed a $120 million lawsuit against various agencies of the State of Texas because of his arrest and wrongful conviction but received neither an apology nor a settlement.
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