Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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substantial rights were not affected. See Puckett v. United States, 556 U.S. 129, 129 S.Ct. 1423, 1423, 1433 n. 4, 173 L.Ed.2d 266 (2009) (noting that where the affected rights relate to sentencing, the outcome a defendant must show to have been affected is his sentence). Therefore, the district court did not err by finding that the government did not breach the plea agreement, and we affirm. AFFIRMED. 1 . Melendez-Baez also mentions that the district court abused its discretion by denying his motions to continue his sentencing hearing or to permit him to withdraw his guilty plea. However, because Melendez-Baez failed to devote a discrete section of his brief addressing these arguments, he has abandoned them on appeal. United States v. Jernigan, 341 F.3d 1273, 1284 n. 8 (11th Cir.2003)
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding an issue abandoned in a counseled case where although the defendant made passing references to issues in his brief he did not devote a discrete section of his brief to the argument and the references were undertaken as background to claims that he had expressly advanced
B. holding that issues are deemed abandoned when the brief only makes a passing references to an issue
C. holding that petitioner abandoned issues and claims not sufficiently raised in his brief
D. holding that the appellant abandoned an issue to which he only made passing references
E. holding in counseled case that listed issue was abandoned where it was not discussed in the argument portion of the brief
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.