Brett Diehl

Brett Diehl is a trial attorney with McKenzie Scott PC's Criminal Defense and Civil Rights Practice Groups. Following his graduation from Princeton University and the University of Oxford, Brett attended Stanford Law School. As a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford, Brett received a full three-year scholarship and participated in the graduate leadership program. While at Stanford, he was awarded the Gunther Prize for Constitutional Law, served as an articles editor for the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, and received his J.D. with the Pro Bono Highest Distinction. During law school, Brett worked in Stanford's Immigrants' Rights Clinic and its Three Strikes Project, assisted Professor George Fisher as a research assistant, and honed his criminal defense trial preparation and legal writing skills through internships at state and federal public defender offices in California and Virginia.

Following graduation from Stanford Law School, Brett joined the renowned Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc. defending indigent clients in federal court. In addition to full-time criminal defense, Brett serves as an Army Judge Advocate in the California Army National Guard. He is passionate about researching and litigating Fourth Amendment issues and has published about geofence warrants in the Stanford Law Review. Brett is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Portuguese.

Bar Admissions:

• California

Court Admissions:

• United States District Court for the Southern District of California
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

• Haley Amster & Brett Diehl, Against Geofences, 74 STAN L. REV. 385 (2022).
• Brett Diehl, Cezar Trent and Peter Scudder, Two Free Black Men in Antebellum Princeton, 78 PRINCETON U. LIBR. CHRON. 71 (2020).