Task: songer_direct1

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to determine the ideological directionality of the court of appeals decision, coded as "liberal" or "conservative". Consider liberal to be  for the defendant. Consider the directionality to be "mixed" if the directionality of the decision was intermediate to the extremes defined above or if the decision was mixed (e.g., the conviction of defendant in a criminal trial was affirmed on one count but reversed on a second count or if the conviction was afirmed but the sentence was reduced). Consider "not ascertained" if the directionality could not be determined or if the outcome could not be classified according to any conventional outcome standards.

OPINION OF THE COURT
PER CURIAM.
The District Court denied the defendant Jackson’s petition for vacation of sentence which was premised on his contention that he was deprived of his right to counsel at all phases of the criminal proceedings against him and that as a result he made an involuntary confession and entered a guilty plea to an indictment charging him with theft of a money order while in the employ of the Internal Revenue Service.
On review of the record we find no error.
The Order of the District Court denying Jackson’s petition will be affirmed for the reasons so well stated in Judge Wortendyke’s Opinion, 302 F.Supp. 216.

Question: What is the ideological directionality of the court of appeals decision?
A. conservative
B. liberal
C. mixed
D. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: A