Task: songer_counsel2

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Intervenors who participated as parties at the courts of appeals should be counted as either appellants or respondents when it can be determined whose position they supported. For example, if there were two plaintiffs who lost in district court, appealed, and were joined by four intervenors who also asked the court of appeals to reverse the district court, the number of appellants should be coded as six.
Your task is to determine the nature of the counsel for the respondent. If name of attorney was given with no other indication of affiliation, assume it is private - unless a government agency was the party

PER CURIAM.
Donald H. Sharpe filed a petition under Title 28 U.S.C.A. § 2255, to vacate a sentence imposed upon him for violation of the Dyer Act, 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 10, 2311-2313. From the Court’s action in dismissing the petition this appeal was taken.
Sharpe alleged that his Court-appointed counsel was incompetent, that his plea was induced by a promise of a suspended sentence, that his conduct did not constitute a violation of the Dyer Act, and that he tendered his plea without full understanding of its nature and effect. On procedural grounds he further complains that the Court failed to comply with Rule 11 of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 18 U.S.C.A., by not inquiring adequately to ascertain whether the plea was made voluntarily and with understanding.
The petitioner further complains that he was not accorded a hearing on his petition.
An examination of the record disclosed mo basis for any of the complaints.
Affirmed.

Question: What is the nature of the counsel for the respondent?
A. none (pro se)
B. court appointed
C. legal aid or public defender
D. private
E. government - US
F. government - state or local
G. interest group, union, professional group
H. other or not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: E