--- title: "United States v. Raia" citation: "954 F.3d 594 (3d Cir. 2020)" authority_id: "AUTH-CA3-RAIA-954-F3D-594" authority_type: "case" jurisdiction: "federal_third_circuit" precedential_status: "binding_in_ca3" official_url: "https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/201033p.pdf" url: "https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/authorities/AUTH-CA3-RAIA-954-F3D-594/" legal_review: "2026-08-25" links_checked: "2026-10-15" links_available: 1 links_checked_count: 1 license: "CC BY 4.0" --- # United States v. Raia ## Holdings used - A compassionate-release motion is addressed first to the sentencing court; the premature request in the pending-government-appeal posture foreclosed first-instance appellate relief and made remand futile. ## Material limitation Binding only in the Third Circuit and only for the bounded procedural postures in the linked claims. Official precedential opinion reviewed. Only the first-instance, prematurity, and remand propositions are adopted; pandemic merits language and a universal issue-exhaustion rule are excluded. A comprehensive commercial citator was not run. ## Official source and pinpoints 954 F.3d 594 (3d Cir. 2020), 954 F.3d 595–97: ## Linked claims - `CLM-CIR3-004` ## Used in - [Third Circuit Overlay](https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/modules/95-circuit-overlays/third-circuit.md)