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Darrick Dernard Bell v. United States
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 24-1657 · judgment May 7, 2026
Questions presented
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Whether the Fifth and Sixth Amendments permit a sentencing court to increase a defendant’s Guidelines range based on conduct underlying charges on which the jury deadlocked and which the Government then dismissed.
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Whether a prior sentence that expired by its own terms before the fifteen-year lookback period of U.S.S.G. §4A1.2(e)(1) may be counted toward criminal history on the basis of state-law rules regarding sentence aggregation, or the denial of presentence credit, that treat the sentence as unserved or as having caused later incarceration.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
James W Amberg
Amberg & Amberg, PLLC
For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Oct 15 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including December 2, 2026.
- Oct 14 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 2, 2026 to December 2, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Sep 29 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including November 2, 2026.
- Sep 25 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 2, 2026 to November 2, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Sep 02 2026Response Requested. (Due October 2, 2026)
- Aug 27 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
- Aug 19 2026Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
- Aug 05 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 11, 2026)