Task: songer_counsel1

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 appellant. If name of attorney was given with no other indication of affiliation, assume it is private - unless a government agency was the party

ORDER
Before CHAMBERS and ELY, Circuit Judges, and CURTIS, District Judge.
The district court dismissed the petition of removal in this murder case from the new territorial superior court in Guam. The petition of removal was based on defendant’s claim that as the Guam territorial judge’s son had been recently murdered, the judge should not hear this case. We affirm the order dismissing the petition of removal.
We simply do not reach the question of whether any removals to the District Court of Guam are permissible. This criminal case could not have been removed to a federal district court in any of the fifty states. There is no civil rights aspect to the case that would bring 28 U.S.C. § 1443 into play. See Georgia v. Rachel, 384 U.S. 780, 86 S.Ct. 1783, 16 L.Ed.2d 925 (1965).
The removal case issue should be settled. We find that Jones & Guerrero Co., Inc. v. Sealift Pacific, No. 75-3121, in our backlog, a diversity case, is likely to permit resolution of the question. We are proceeding to expedite.

Question: What is the nature of the counsel for the appellant?
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: D