Task: songer_mootness

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. You will be asked a question pertaining to some threshold issue at the trial court level. These issues are only considered to be present if the court of appeals is reviewing whether or not the litigants should properly have been allowed to get a trial court decision on the merits. That is, the issue is whether or not the issue crossed properly the threshhold to get on the district court agenda. The issue is: "Did the court conclude that an issue was moot?" Answer the question based on the directionality of the appeals court decision. If the court discussed the issue in its opinion and answered the related question in the affirmative, answer "Yes". If the issue was discussed and the opinion answered the question negatively, answer "No". If the opinion considered the question but gave a mixed answer, supporting the respondent in part and supporting the appellant in part, answer "Mixed answer". If the opinion does not discuss the issue, or notes that a particular issue was raised by one of the litigants but the court dismissed the issue as frivolous or trivial or not worthy of discussion for some other reason, answer "Issue not discussed". If the opinion considered the question but gave a "mixed" answer, supporting the respondent in part and supporting the appellant in part (or if two issues treated separately by the court both fell within the area covered by one question and the court answered one question affirmatively and one negatively), answer "Mixed answer". If the opinion either did not consider or discuss the issue at all or if the opinion indicates that this issue was not worthy of consideration by the court of appeals even though it was discussed by the lower court or was raised in one of the briefs, answer "Issue not discussed".

ROSE, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error was defendant below and will be so styled here. His complaint is of the analysis of the evidence made in the charge to the jury. It is true that the learned judge did not, in terms, express any opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant as, with proper reservations and cautions, he might properly have- done. Nevertheless he went far in commenting in what seemed to him to be the relative weight to be given to the testimony of the witnesses for the government and for the defendant. Unquestionably, if the charge had stopped there, as it did not, the present contention of the defendant would have been hard to answer, but the learned judge, in the dosing sentences of his charge, used the dearest and most emphatic language to make it plain to the jury that the sole duty of passing on the facts was with them, and that, if there was any doubt in the ease, the defendant was entitled to an acquittal. Affirmed.

Question: Did the court conclude that an issue was moot?
A. No
B. Yes
C. Mixed answer
D. Issue not discussed
Answer:

Answer: D