Task: songer_counsel1

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

PER CURIAM.
Petition to review order of United States District Court, District of Minnesota, denying application for writ of habeas corpus and motion to proceed in forma pauperis in said District Court denied in all respects, without prejudice however to an application to the trial Court which passed sentence upon petitioner for the remedy established by Rule 35 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 18 U.S.C.A. following section 687.

Question: What is the nature of the counsel for the appellant?
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: A