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

OPINION OF THE COURT
PER CURIAM.
The District Court denied the defendant Jackson’s petition for vacation of sentence which was premised on his contention that he was deprived of his right to counsel at all phases of the criminal proceedings against him and that as a result he made an involuntary confession and entered a guilty plea to an indictment charging him with theft of a money order while in the employ of the Internal Revenue Service.
On review of the record we find no error.
The Order of the District Court denying Jackson’s petition will be affirmed for the reasons so well stated in Judge Wortendyke’s Opinion, 302 F.Supp. 216.

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: E