Greater Dallas Republicans - Dinner & Meeting

Greater Dallas Republicans - Dinner & Meeting July 29,2010 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM May Dragon 4848 Belt Line Road Dallas, Texas 75254-7541   RSVP: Cinzia Croce (972) 575-8904 $15.00pp (checks or cash) You’ll Want To Hear This Powerful Speaker On "Senators, Crack Heads, Money and Power: Mandatory Drug Sentencing and Its Impact on Minorities" Professor Mark W. Osler is a Yale Graduate, former federal prosecutor and a leading expert on sentencing whose work has consistently confronted the problem of inflexibility in sentencing and corrections. Most recently, as lead counsel, he won the case of Spears v. United States (2009) in the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Court held that sentencing judges can categorically reject the 100:1 ratio between crack and powder cocaine in the federal sentencing guidelines. Justice Stevens (in dissent) also quoted Osler in the seminal case of United States v. Booker (2005), which struck down the mandatory guidelines. He has authored more than 20 academic articles, and has been interviewed as a sentencing expert on NPR's "Morning Edition" and ABC's "Good Morning America."