Task: songer_typeiss

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to determine the general category of issues discussed in the opinion of the court. Choose among the following categories. Criminal and prisioner petitions- includes 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 or the validity of continued confinement. Civil - Government - these will include appeals from administrative agencies (e.g., OSHA,FDA), the decisions of administrative law judges, or the decisions of independent regulatory agencies (e.g., NLRB, FCC,SEC). The focus in administrative law is usually on procedural principles that apply to administrative agencies as they affect private interests, primarily through rulemaking and adjudication. Tort actions against the government, including petitions by prisoners which challenge the conditions of their confinement or which seek damages for torts committed by prion officials or by police fit in this category. In addition, this category will include suits over taxes and claims for benefits from government. Diversity of Citizenship - civil cases involving disputes between citizens of different states (remember that businesses have state citizenship). These cases will always involve the application of state or local law. If the case is centrally concerned with the application or interpretation of federal law then it is not a diversity case. Civil Disputes - Private - includes all civil cases that do not fit in any of the above categories. The opposing litigants will be individuals, businesses or groups.

PER CURIAM.
Otto Bennett is a prisoner in the Maine state Prison serving a five to ten year sentence for statutory rape imposed in the Superior Court of the State of Maine for Knox County following a jury verdict of guilty. On appeal his exceptions were overruled and judgment ordered for the State. State of Maine v. Bennett, 158 Me. 109, 179 A.2d 812 (1962). In both courts Bennett was represented by counsel of unquestioned competence and diligence. In January of this year he filed application for habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the District of Maine with an affidavit of poverty and a request for appointment of “advisory counsel.” That court granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis but denied Bennett’s request for appointment of counsel and summarily denied his application for habeas corpus on the ground of lack of jurisdiction for the reason that Bennett’s allegations constituted only an attack on the credibility of witnesses and the sufficiency of the State’s evidence to support his conviction (assertions considered and rejected by the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine on Bennett’s appeal), and therefore failed to allege facts to show that Bennett was in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States as required by Title 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c) (3). Subsequently that court refused to issue a certificate of probable cause for appeal.
In this court Bennett has presented three “motions”:, 1) a “motion” for a certificate of probable cause for appeal, 2) a “motion” for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and 3) a “motion” to amend his complaint to make the hackneyed charge that his conviction was obtained by the prosecuting authorities by the known use of perjured testimony and the known suppression of evidence in his favor.
An examination of the files discloses that the court below was clearly correct in its analysis of the allegations in Bennett’s application for habeas corpus. We shall therefore deny Bennett’s motion for a certificate of probable cause for appeal and also his motion for leave to proeeed in this court in forma pauperis. And we shall also deny Bennett’s motion for leave to amend his application for habeas corpus as not properly made in this court. Orders will be entered accordingly-

Question: What is the general category of issues discussed in the opinion of the court?
A. criminal and prisoner petitions
B. civil - government
C. diversity of citizenship
D. civil - private
E. other, not applicable
F. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: A