Task: songer_procedur

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals. Your task is to determine whether there was an issue discussed in the opinion of the court about the interpretation of federal rule of procedures, judicial doctrine, or case law, and if so, whether the resolution of the issue by the court favored the appellant.

PER CURIAM:
The trial court undertook to hear and decide the defense of entrapment itself. After considering evidence received at a hearing outside the presence of the jury, the court rejected the defense and declined to submit it to the jury. The government concedes that this was error (see Erwing v. United States, 394 F.2d 829, 830 (9th Cir. 1968)), but contends that the error was harmless because (1) the evidence was insufficient to raise the issue of entrapment, and (2) even if it was sufficient- to go to the jury, “the testimony of defendant was so filled with inconsistencies and contradictions that the jury could have only reached the same result as that reached by the Trial Judge, to wit, the defendant was to be disbelieved.”
We think the defendant’s testimony, taken as true, was sufficient to require submission of the issue of entrapment to the jury. This being so, the defendant’s credibility was for the jury, not the trial court or this court, to decide.
Reversed.

Question: Did the interpretation of federal rule of procedures, judicial doctrine, or case law by the court favor the appellant?
A. No
B. Yes
C. Mixed answer
D. Issue not discussed
Answer:

Answer: B