Task: songer_counsel2

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

HITZ, Associate Justice.
This appeal relates to an order of the Supreme Court of the District in a habeas corpus proceeding discharging appellee, Johnson, who had been sentenced and committed to jail on June 30, 1933, for violation of the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA), and involves the same question decided this day in Rives v. O’Hearne, 64 App. D. C. 48, 73 F.(2d) 984. For the reasons therein stated, the order discharging appellee is reversed.
Reversed.

Question: What is the nature of the counsel for the respondent?
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