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John Edwin Corn, Jr. v. United States
IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 24-13187 · judgment November 6, 2025
Question presented
Following this Court’s decisions in United States v. Booker, 543 U.S. 220 (2005), and Gall v. United States, 552 U.S. 38 (2007), whether a district court imposes a substantively unreasonable sentence when it upward varies from the sentencing guidelines range but affords no real weight to a defendant’s mitigating history and characteristics under 18 U.S.C. § 3553(a)(1)?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
M. Allison Guagliardo
Office of the Federal Defender
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
Order
Order list, March 23, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Mar 23 2026Petition DENIED.
- Feb 26 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2026.
- Feb 18 2026Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
- Feb 04 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 9, 2026)