Sharad S. Khandelwal is a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas. He is currently the Deputy Criminal Chief over the Human Rights and Organized Crime Section, which handles the civil rights, human trafficking, and child exploitation caseloads. AUSA Khandelwal graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, magna cum laude, in 1995, and from the University of Michigan Law School, cum laude, in 1998. While at the Michigan Law School, he served as the Executive Note Editor of the Michigan Law Review. In 1998-99, he clerked for the Hon. Carl E. Stewart, former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. AUSA Khandelwal has served as a federal prosecutor for almost twenty years. Two years ago, he led the trial team in United States v. Marq Perez, No. 17-35, which prosecuted the 2017 hate crime arson of the mosque in Victoria, Texas. He received the Attorney General’s Award for this successful prosecution, which resulted in an almost 25-year sentence for the defendant. AUSA Khandelwal also serves as an adjust professor at South Texas College of Law teaching trial advocacy.

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