Task: songer_appel1_7_5

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.
When coding the detailed nature of participants, use your personal knowledge about the participants, if you are completely confident of the accuracy of your knowledge, even if the specific information is not in the opinion. For example, if "IBM" is listed as the appellant it could be classified as "clearly national or international in scope" even if the opinion did not indicate the scope of the business. 

Your task concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". Your task is to determine which of these categories best describes the income of the litigant. Consider the following categories: "not ascertained", "poor + wards of state" (e.g., patients at state mental hospital; not prisoner unless specific indication that poor), "presumed poor" (e.g., migrant farm worker), "presumed wealthy" (e.g., high status job - like medical doctors, executives of corporations that are national in scope, professional athletes in the NBA or NFL; upper 1/5 of income bracket), "clear indication of wealth in opinion", "other - above poverty line but not clearly wealthy" (e.g., public school teachers, federal government employees)." Note that "poor" means below the federal poverty line; e.g., welfare or food stamp recipients. There must be some specific indication in the opinion that you can point to before anyone is classified anything other than "not ascertained". Prisoners filing "pro se" were classified as poor, but litigants in civil cases who proceed pro se were not presumed to be poor. Wealth obtained from the crime at issue in a criminal case was not counted when determining the wealth of the criminal defendant (e.g., drug dealers).

PER CURIAM.
Richard Noel LaBare was convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. § 1792 by carrying a knifelike weapon from place to place within the Petersburg Federal Reformatory. Upon this appeal LaBare contends that carrying the weapon from one part of a cell to another does not constitute a violation of the statute, and that his act of carrying the weapon was not voluntary since he walked across the cell at the order of a prison guard.
The essential evidence is undisputed. A guard found LaBare and several other prisoners in one cell and ordered LaBare to leave. As LaBare walked across the cell, a distance of some thirty to forty feet, and approached the door, one of the other prisoners suggested to the guard that LaBare had a weapon. The guard then searched LaBare and discovered the knife.
The Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has had occasion to consider the relevant portions of Section 1792 several times within the recent past. Noting that a criminal statute is to be strictly construed, that court held that mere possession does not violate the statutory proscription, and that “the phrase ‘conveying from place to place’ denotes something more than a slight or unsubstantial change in the situs of an object.” United States v. Bedwell, 456 F.2d 448, 450 (10 Cir. 1972). It has held, however, “that even a short space in which the transportation occurred is enough.” United States v. Swindler, 476 F.2d 167, 169 (10 Cir. 1973). See also United States v. Acosta, 495 F.2d 60 (10 Cir. 1974); United States v. Meador, 456 F.2d 197 (10 Cir. 1972). The statute does not define the term from place to place, and we perceive no reason to read into it a requirement that the conveyance be from one place to another place that is separated from the first by a partition or other barrier. In the present case it was sufficient that the weapon was carried from one place in the prison cell to another place some thirty or forty feet distant.
Likewise, there is no merit to La-Bare’s contention that his conveyance of the weapon was involuntary. There is no indication that when he was directed to leave the cell there was such urgency in the guard’s order that LaBare could not have surrendered the weapon before starting his departure. Cf. United States v. Swindler, supra.
Since the evidence support’s the jury’s verdict that LaBare’s conduct violated the statute, the judgment of conviction is affirmed.
AFFIRMED.

Question: This question concerns the first listed appellant. The nature of this litigant falls into the category "natural person (excludes persons named in their official capacity or who appear because of a role in a private organization)". Which of these categories best describes the income of the litigant?
A. not ascertained
B. poor + wards of state
C. presumed poor
D. presumed wealthy
E. clear indication of wealth in opinion
F. other - above poverty line but not clearly wealthy
Answer:

Answer: A