Mark William Osler was born on 1963 and is an American legal scholar and a former state and federal prosecutor.
12 Facts About Mark Osler
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Mark Osler began work as a law professor at Baylor University in 2000 before leaving for St Thomas in 2010.
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Mark Osler's work has been profiled by The American Prospect, Rolling Stone and CBS News.
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Mark Osler attended Grosse Pointe North High School, where he worked on the school newspaper with future AP White House reporter Ron Fournier.
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Some of Mark Osler's work addressed sentencing issues involving crack cocaine.
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In 2009, Osler won the case of Spears v United States in the United States Supreme Court, which reversed the Eighth Circuit and clarified a prior sentencing decision, declaring that sentencing judges could "categorically" reject the 100-to-1 ration between powder and crack cocaine which was then embedded in the federal sentencing guidelines.
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Mark Osler was chosen as "Professor of the Year" in 2016,2019, and 2022.
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An article Mark Osler co-authored with Rachel Barkow for the University of Chicago Law Review was highlighted in a lead editorial in The New York Times, in which the Times' editorial board expressly embraced Barkow and Mark Osler's argument for clemency reform.
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In 2020,2022 and 2023, Mark Osler testified before subcommittees of the United States House Judiciary Committee on various aspects of clemency.
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Mark Osler has commented on the death penalty and other issues for CNN, MSNBC, NPR, ESPN, and the Huffington Post.
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Mark Osler was the lawyer for Weldon Angelos, who was freed in 2016 after serving 12 years of a 55-year sentence on a marijuana and gun possession conviction.
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In 2023, Mark Osler was part of a coalition seeking clemency reform in Minnesota based on his proposed structure in 2019.