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:
John E. KIRBY, Appellant, v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY, Appellee.
No. 8394.
United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.
Argued Nov. 7, 1961.
Decided Nov. 15, 1961.
Lowell R. Bowen, Baltimore, Md. (Court-assigned counsel), for appellant.
Robert F. Sweeney, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Maryland (Thomas B. Finan, Atty. Gen. of Maryland, on the brief), for appellee.
Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and BOREMAN and BELL, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
John E. Kirby appeals from an order of the District Court dismissing without a hearing his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Kirby is a state prisoner now serving two consecutive sentences of twenty years each in the Maryland Penitentiary on two charges of armed robbery.
The complaint is that his confinement is unconstitutional because in passing sentence the trial judge was “motivated by matters not of record.” To substantiate this claim the petitioner relies on a statement made by the state judge in passing sentence: “ * * * I am perfectly satisfied that you are not being tried for the only ones [holdups] that you perpetrated, * * The petitioner also points to the fact that the judge alluded to him as a “holdup artist.”
te State makes two countercontentions. The first is procedural, namely, that the petitioner has not exhausted his state remedies. The second, on the merits, is that viewed in context the judge’s statements did not infect the proceedings with such fundamental unfairness as to render them unconstitutional.
First, as to the exhaustion issue, it appears that the judge’s statements were set forth as a grievance in the petitioner’s brief in a delayed appeal to the Court of Appeals of Maryland, Kirby v. State, 222 Md. 421, 160 A.2d 786 (1960), and certiorari was denied by the Supreme Court. 364 U.S. 850, 81 S.Ct. 95, 5 L.Ed.2d 74. While it is true that the point made in the Court of Appeals of Maryland was not couched in the precise language employed in the petition to the District Court, nevertheless, the substance of the argument addressed to the Maryland court is the same as in the District Court. In each instance the defendant charged that he was deprived of his liberty without due process of law in that extraneous matter was permitted by the trial judge to influence the sentence. Consequently, we conclude that the petitioner duly exhausted his state remedies and had standing to petition the District Court for relief.
On the merits, however, the State must prevail. The observations of the judge, viewed most unfavorably— as unsupported by evidence and hence improper — could not be deemed so extreme as to convert the proceedings into a nullity. Federal courts do not exercise a general supervisory authority over state courts, and they have no jurisdiction to correct errors less than fundamental in a constitutional sense. Compare Cicenia v. La Gay, 357 U.S. 504, 78 S.Ct. 1297, 2 L.Ed.2d 1523 (1958). The remarks came on the heels of a recital of the defendant’s criminal record, which was one of impressive magnitude— eleven convictions for burglary, two for larceny, one for attempted burglary, one for escape from prison, one for assault with intent to kill. There is no indication. °f i7the ^e’s bias Prejudice the petitioner nor does it appear tha* these “tu obserrofaonfl, meas-ufed tbe defendant’s record, Played any significant part m the judgfent of^f court- Tbe len^th of sen“ tenceandthe considerations upon which f +1S based do notT normally raise constitutional issues. In the present case the facts alleged are not sufficient to support the claim that the petitioner has been denied due process,
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?

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: 1