Task: songer_geniss

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to identify the issue in the case, that is, the social and/or political context of the litigation in which more purely legal issues are argued. Put somewhat differently, this field identifies the nature of the conflict between the litigants. The focus here is on the subject matter of the controversy rather than its legal basis. Consider the following categories: "criminal" (including appeals of conviction, petitions for post conviction relief, habeas corpus petitions, and other prisoner petitions which challenge the validity of the conviction or the sentence), "civil rights" (excluding First Amendment or due process; also excluding claims of denial of rights in criminal proceeding or claims by prisoners that challenge their conviction or their sentence (e.g., habeas corpus petitions are coded under the criminal category); does include civil suits instituted by both prisoners and callable non-prisoners alleging denial of rights by criminal justice officials), "First Amendment", "due process" (claims in civil cases by persons other than prisoners, does not include due process challenges to government economic regulation), "privacy", "labor relations", "economic activity and regulation", and "miscellaneous".

PER CURIAM.
Ronald May appeals the district court’s denial of his application for a writ of habe-as corpus. In June 1977, petitioner was convicted of manslaughter in the State of Missouri and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
Petitioner alleges that the state trial court committed four errors of constitutional magnitude. The four errors raised are as follows:
(1) the trial court allowed a key state witness to testify that she had received threats, as an attempt to explain her prior inconsistent statements;
(2) the evidence was insufficient to constitute a submissible case;
(3) the trial court refused to allow petitioner to call a certain defense witness;
(4) the trial court refused to give a requested self-defense instruction.
These claims are the same four raised by petitioner on direct appeal in state court. State v. May, 587 S.W.2d 331 (Mo.App.1979). The United States Magistrate also reviewed the same four issues under federal law and recommended that the application for a writ of habeas corpus be denied. The district court adopted the findings and recommendation of the magistrate.
We have carefully studied the record, including the magistrate’s findings and the briefs of the parties to this action. We find no merit to petitioner’s arguments, and accordingly affirm pursuant to Rule 14 of the Rules of this court on the basis of the magistrate’s findings as adopted by the district court.

Question: What is the general issue in the case?
A. criminal
B. civil rights
C. First Amendment
D. due process
E. privacy
F. labor relations
G. economic activity and regulation
H. miscellaneous
Answer:

Answer: A