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.

PER CURIAM:
Appealing from denial of relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, appellant assigns as error failure of the District Court to give consideration to various errors he asserts were committed in the course of his trial for bank robbery. One of these alleged errors was raised by appellant on direct appeal from judgment of conviction and was rejected by this court. United States v. Paige (9th Cir. 1971). The others relate to matters of evidence, the use of memoranda by a witness and remarks made by the government attorney. All could have been asserted on direct appeal but were not. None is of such dimensions as to present a question of due process. A sentence is not subject to collateral attack on the basis of such alleged error. Dodd v. United States, 321 F.2d 240 (9th Cir. 1963).
Judgment affirmed.

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

Answer: A