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.

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

Answer: A