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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
Certiorari denied · March 23, 2026
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
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
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)