User:Doestreicher/Mark J. Reichel

General Information
Mark J. Reichel is currently a criminal and civil Attorney in Sacramento, California. He is also the vice chairman of the Sacramento board of the American Civil Liberties Union. Mark has been involved in several prominent criminal and civil cases including: United States v. Eric McDavid and United States v. Grubbs.

Education and Accolades
Mark attended the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California. He was selected as a Finalist for the Best Brief and Best Oral Argument Award as well as giving the commencement speech for his graduating class of 1991. Shortly after graduating from law school, Mark handled a civil rights lawsuit in a case that was featured across the nation and highlighted in the December 1992 issue of Life Magazine. Mark is also a 1995 graduate of the National Criminal Defense College in Macon, Georgia.

Public Defender
Mark spent 13 years as a trial attorney for the Federal Public Defender in Sacramento. Mark handled thousands of cases over these 13 years. One of the most celebrated cases in Mark's career came as he took United States v. Grubbs all the way from arraignment to argument in front of the United States Supreme Court. Mark argued in this case that the 4th Amendment requires officers to provide a copy of the search warrant to the homeowner when conducting a search.