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:
Alabama affords a post-conviction remedy through statutory habeas corpus, Title 15, § 1, Ala.Code, and the common law writ of error coram nobis, Johnson v. Williams, 1943, 244 Ala. 391, 13 So.2d 683. See Wiman v. Argo, 5 Cir., 1962, 308 F.2d 674; Whither: On Habeas, Tyson, 24 Alabama Lawyer 271 (1963). The Alabama law on affording counsel to indigent criminal defendants was bolstered in 1963 to include trial counsel in noncapital cases where the defendant is charged with a “serious” offense, counsel on appeal and, under some conditions, counsel in habeas corpus and coram nobis proceedings. Title 15, §§ 318(1)-318(11), Ala.Code. Transcripts are made available without charge to indigent persons for direct appeal as well as for appeals from collateral proceedings. Title 15, §§ 380(14)-380(25), Ala. Code. Moreover, the Alabama courts have indicated that the filing of a previous application for habeas or coram nobis is not res judicata under the Alabama law although a petitioner may be barred where he files repeated applications on the same ground. Allen v. State, 1963, 42 Ala.App. 9, 150 So.2d 399. This reasoning accords with the teaching of Sanders v. United States, 1963, 373 U.S. 1, 83 S.Ct. 1068, 10 L.Ed.2d 148. It does not appear that the appellant’s contentions have ever been asserted on the merits beyond the state trial court. His two original proceedings filed in the Supreme Court of Alabama were dismissed. There was no such remedy. He took no appeal from the denial of two separate petitions for habeas in the state trial court. He has not followed the Alabama procedures available to him, but instead has attempted to set up other procedures. The Alabama Supreme Court explained his right to appeal to him and also the procedure for obtaining a free transcript on the occasion of his last petition to that court. 1965, Ex parte Goodwin, 278 Ala. 9, 174 So.2d 687.
These state procedures or remedies are presently available to him for asserting the contentions made in the District Court. It was thus proper for the District Court to dismiss his habeas petition without a plenary hearing. See Key v. Holman, 5 Cir., 1965, 346 F.2d 153; Pate v. Holman, 5 Cir., 1965, 343 F.2d 546.
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