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:
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. David Lee FRANK, Appellant.
No. 90-5535.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Submitted April 24, 1991.
Decided April 29, 1991.
David Lee Frank, Sandstone, Minn., for appellant.
Andrew S. Dunne, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellee.
Before McMILLIAN, FAGG and MAGILL, Circuit Judges.
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
David Lee Frank appeals the district court’s imposition of a twenty-one-month sentence after his guilty plea to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). He argues through counsel that the district court erred in increasing his criminal history category for a diversionary disposition on a state charge, and pro se that his guilty plea was involuntary as a result of his counsel’s ineffective assistance. We affirm.
In 1984, Frank pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana in violation of Minnesota law. The state court stayed the adjudication and placed Frank on probation under Minn.Stat.Ann. § 152.18 (West 1989). In the instant case, this state probation sentence was included in the calculation of Frank’s criminal history category. U.S. S.G. § 4A1.2(f) states that a diversionary disposition “resulting from a finding or admission of guilt” in a judicial proceeding is counted as a sentence under Guidelines § 4Al.l(c), even if a conviction is not formally entered. Frank’s guilty plea to the state charge was an admission of guilt, and thus the state probation sentence was properly counted as a prior sentence under Guidelines § 4A1.2(f). See United States v. Giraldo-Lara, 919 F.2d 19, 22-23 (5th Cir.1990).
Frank’s argument that the inclusion of the probationary sentence in his criminal history category violated the tenth amendment is without merit. Minnesota law provides that a nonpublic record of the proceedings will be maintained “for the purpose of use by the courts in determining the merits of subsequent proceedings against such person.” Minn.Stat.Ann. § 152.18(1) (West 1989). As the government points out, this latter language has been interpreted as contemplating use of the record “should defendant have ‘future difficulties with the law.’ ” State v. Goodrich, 256 N.W.2d 506, 512 (Minn.1977).
Frank’s pro se claim of ineffective assistance of counsel is dismissed without prejudice. This claim is more properly raised in a habeas corpus proceeding. See United States v. Sanchez, 927 F.2d 376, 378-79 (8th Cir.1991) (per curiam); United States v. Murphy, 899 F.2d 714, 716 (8th Cir.1990).
Accordingly, we affirm.
. The Honorable David S. Doty, United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota.

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?

Choices:
not ascertained
poor + wards of state
presumed poor
presumed wealthy
clear indication of wealth in opinion
other - above poverty line but not clearly wealthy

Answer: 0