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DOCTOR OF OPTOMETRY 505 University Dr. East, Suite 101 College Station, TX 77840 4 Blocks East of Texas Ave. & University Dr. Intersection HOUSTON (AP) — He was among the most celebrated in mates on Texas’ death row, viewed by supporters as an in nocent man unfairly convicted of murder and cited as a vivid example of what’s wrong with capital punishment. Five years ago, Clarence Bran dley, accompanied by a horde of media and beaming advocates, walked through the gates of the Ellis I Unit prison northeast of Huntsville a free man. And, after trying for 10 years to leave death row, it’s ironic Brandley is complaining about the trouble he’s having get ting back. Brandley wants to administer to the spiritual needs of men he used to consider colleagues. “It’s important to me because that’s what really kept me going when I was there,” Brandley, 43, said. “And I still want to intro duce somebody to Christ no mat ter what the end might be.” He’s made the nearly 100- mile drive from Houston to the Ellis Unit, chatted outside with guards he knew, showed a cer tificate of ordination but was denied entry. “He’s not gone through the procedures he’s got to have ap proved,” Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman David Nunnelee said. “Any kind of volunteer minister needs to fill out an application. It needs to be approved by the prison chaplaincy. And it’s nev er been submitted.” Brandley was freed Jan. 23, 1990 after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals threw out his con viction for the mur der of Cheryl Dee Fergeson. The 16- year-old girl was raped and strangled while attending a volleyball tourna- ment at Mont gomery County’s Conroe High School, north of Houston, where Brandley worked as a janitor. The victim was white. Bran dley is black. His first trial end ed in a hung jury. An all-white jury convicted him of capital murder in his second trial and sentenced him to die by injec tion. He once got to within five days of execution. Brandley’s lawyers argued he was the victim of racism and Texas courts lent support to charges he was accused falsely. A judge in 1987 recommend ed a third trial, citing discrimi nation against Brandley. And the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, in a ruling a month before his release, character ized him as the victim of “bla- - ' ' j' .. ^ "I think they owe me a public apology and compensation for my time. Really, you can't put a price on what they've done." — Clarence Brandley tant unfairness.” “It’s not like a bad dream,” Brandley says now. “The sad dest part about all this ordeal is that nobody has contacted me and apologized to me and said they were going to compen sate me for what they done. They never did. “I think they owe me a public apology and compensation for my time. Really, you can’t put a f on what they’ve done.” Montgomery County pro cutors asked the U.S. Supre Court to reinstate the muri conviction, but the high coi in December 1990 refused, fectively putting an end Brandley’s case. The Fergeson slayingr mains unsolved. Brandley, who lives in Ho; ton, still frequents Conre where his mother lives. “I shouldn’t be the one\ti can’t come and go when want,” he said. “This is sc posed to be America. And haven’t broken any law and) haven’t done anything.” Still, he believes his notoi ety continues to haunt him. Other than his preaching:] ties, he can’t find steady work] an electrician, a trade he lea since his prison release. “They say fill out the apjj cation and they’ll get back] me,” he said of employmej prospects. “They never do.” Despite his unemployment ] said he’s being ordered to com] ue child support for two childr] from an earlier marriage. Chief prosecutor on Simpson case ‘born for battlt Colleagues say Clark has good head on her shoulders, high endurance) LOS ANGELES (AP) — It was an audacious act of derring- do. Soon after being assigned the case of slain actress Rebecca Schaeffer, Marcia Clark snatched the murder suspect from under the nose of his Ari zona lawyer and had him hauled back to Los Angeles for trial. The bold, and entirely legal, maneuver was typical Marcia Clark and illustrates the take- no-prisoners style of attack she surely will exhibit Monday when the prosecution lays out its mur der case against O.J. Simpson, colleagues say. “She was born for battle,” says Deputy District Attorney Harvey Giss, Clark’s mentor in her early days as a homicide prosecutor. Long before she was appoint ed chief prosecutor in the Simp son case, the 41-year-old Clark, a veteran of more than 20 trials, was a well-known opponent among Los Angeles’ criminal de fense attorneys. In 1991 she persuaded a judge to convict and sentence Robert John Bardo to life in prison with out possibility of parole for killing Schaeffer, the co-star of televi sion’s “My Sister Sam.” After Bardo’s arrest, Clark learned that his public defend er had filed the papers oppos ing extradition from Arizona in the wrong court. She quickly had Bardo turned over to Los Angeles police and whisked to Los Angeles. Bardo’s lawyers accused Clark of violating his rights, but a judge ruled her maneuver broke no laws. In the midst of the 2 1/2-year- long case, Clark gave birth to the first of her two sons, now aged 5 and 2. “She’s got a good head on her shoulders, she’s articulate, well- schooled, pleasant to look at and, the most important thing, is she’s got the endurance to go the route. She’s an athlete. That’s the key in a big case,” Giss says. Most recently, she got death penalties in 1993 for Anthony Oliver and Albert Lewis, convict ed in the shotgun killings of two women during evening services at a church. In 1986, by eliciting precise ballistics evidence from an ex pert witness, she helped Giss convict John Hawkins of slaying two people while he was out« bail awaiting trial for an earl slaying. Since the Simpson casej her in the spotlight, Clark 1 been equally tenacious in pr] tecting her privacy. The fewd tails of her private life to have mostly come from friem and colleagues. She’s been married twi« She was divorced from profe;] sional backgammon plavff Gabriel Horowitz in 1981, ly two years after she gradual) ed from Southwestern Univer sity Law School. She separate from her second husband,( puter programmer Gorioij Clark, in late 1993 and filetHoj divorce a few days before Nict Brown Simpson and Rona!(| Goldman were killed. Simpson: Cochran takes control of Simpson case quickly Continued from Page 1 plates: “JO JR.” He’s active in Democratic Party politics and contributes quietly to a number of caus es, among them Cochran Villa, a 10-unit, low-income complex dedicated to his par ents, and the Johnnie L. Cochran Sr. Schol arship for UCLA African American Males, set up to honor his father. Born in Shreveport, La., Cochran came to Los Angeles with his family in 1949 and was one of two dozen black students inte grated into Los Angeles High School in the 1950s. He graduated from UCLA and Loyola University Law School and spent two years in the city attorney’s office be fore starting his own practice. In the 1970s, he left private work briefly to work as a special assistant to the Los An geles district attorney. There he set up a unit to prosecute domestic violence cases, years before such crimes were widely ac knowledged. Cochran represents white trucker Regij nald Denny in his pending $40 million| lawsuit against the city. Denny alleges! police failed to rescue him even when tele ] vision showed his savage beating in 1992 riots that followed the first verdictir,| the Rodney King case. “I’ve learned to live in a white world,"] Cochran says. “I don’t go around every davj thinking I’m black.” fieed a place to park? Come park at the . 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