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).

OPINION OF THE COURT
PER CURIAM:
The defendant was convicted of bank robbery after a jury trial in the district court. He raises a number of issues on appeal, including his inability to obtain rough notes prepared by an F.B.I. agent at an interview with the defendant. The notes had been destroyed by the agent in accordance with Bureau policy.
At trial, an F.B.I. agent testified that the defendant admitted committing the robbery. This witness produced a two-page report on the defendant’s statement and described the subsequent destruction of rough notes made during the interview from which the formal report had been prepared. At trial, defendant denied making any incriminating statement to the agents.
The defendant relies upon United States v. Harris, 543 F.2d 1247 (9th Cir. 1976), for the proposition that both the Jencks Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3500, and Fed.R.Crim.P. 16 require that the rough notes be preserved and be made available to the defendant.
At argument of this case, counsel for the Government stated to the court that it is now the policy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to preserve rough notes of interviews. We accept this representation and, accordingly, do not meet the issue insofar as it affects future conduct of F.B.I. agents. See United States v. Harrison, 173 U.S.App.D.C. 260, 524 F.2d 421 (1975).
After a review of the defendant’s contention in the light of the record, we conclude that any error was harmless. Since the defendant denied making any statement at all, we do not believe that the rough notes would have aided his position. The conflict in credibility was clear and the jurors were well aware of it. See United States v. Harris, supra.
Defendant also contends that the district court erred in:
1. denying defendant’s motion to exclude or limit evidence of his prior bank robbery conviction and permitting cross-examination on that topic;
2. refusing to dismiss the indictment because of delay between arrest and indictment;
3. refusing to suppress the defendant’s confession because it was the fruit of an illegal arrest.
We have reviewed these contentions and find them to lack merit. Accordingly, the judgment of the district court will be 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