Task: songer_typeiss

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to determine the general category of issues discussed in the opinion of the court. Choose among the following categories. Criminal and prisioner petitions- includes appeals of conviction, petitions for post conviction relief, habeas corpus petitions, and other prisoner petitions which challenge the validity of the conviction or the sentence or the validity of continued confinement. Civil - Government - these will include appeals from administrative agencies (e.g., OSHA,FDA), the decisions of administrative law judges, or the decisions of independent regulatory agencies (e.g., NLRB, FCC,SEC). The focus in administrative law is usually on procedural principles that apply to administrative agencies as they affect private interests, primarily through rulemaking and adjudication. Tort actions against the government, including petitions by prisoners which challenge the conditions of their confinement or which seek damages for torts committed by prion officials or by police fit in this category. In addition, this category will include suits over taxes and claims for benefits from government. Diversity of Citizenship - civil cases involving disputes between citizens of different states (remember that businesses have state citizenship). These cases will always involve the application of state or local law. If the case is centrally concerned with the application or interpretation of federal law then it is not a diversity case. Civil Disputes - Private - includes all civil cases that do not fit in any of the above categories. The opposing litigants will be individuals, businesses or groups.

PER CURIAM.
The appellant, Doris Gardiner, was convicted under fifteen counts of an indictment charging as many violations of the narcotics laws. Shortly theretofore she had served part of a sentence for similar offenses. Her plea that she was entrapped by federal narcotics agents into selling large quantities of heroin to one of them on several different occasions was submitted to and rejected by the jury.
On appeal, she argues inter alia, that there was entrapment as a matter of law. The point is without substance. There was hardly enough evidence to justify submitting the question of entrapment to the jury.
She also contends that a confession was obtained from her in violation of the Supreme Court’s Mallory ruling. Appellant was arrested at 4:45 p.m. March 8,1962. She was taken to the office of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics for booking and routine processing, arriving there at 5:00 p. m. Within minutes thereafter, while a line-up sheet was being prepared, she began a somewhat lengthy oral statement, admitting the offenses with which she was charged. She was advised that she did not have to make a statement, and was not threatened, coerced, intimidated or abused in any way. In these cirmumstances, appellant’s threshold confession was not obtained in violation of Criminal Rule 5(a) and was properly admitted into evidence. See Jackson v. United States, 114 U.S.App.D.C. 181, 313 F.2d 572, 575 (1962), where we said, “The critical period is that between arrest and confession. 'Detention after a confession plainly does not affect its admissibility. United States v. Mitchell, 1944, 322 U.S. 65, 64 S.Ct. 896, 88 L.Ed. 1140.’ Metoyer v. United States, 102 U.S.App.D.C. 62, 65 n. 4, 250 F.2d 30, 33 n. 4 (1957). * * ”
Other points pressed on appeal do not seem to us to require discussion.
Affirmed.
. Cf. Lopez v. United States, 373 U.S. 427, 434, 436, 83 S.Ct. 1381, 10 L.Ed.2d 462 (1963).
. Mallory v. United States, 354 U.S. 449, 77 S.Ct. 1356, 1 L.Ed.2d 1479 (1957).

Question: What is the general category of issues discussed in the opinion of the court?
A. criminal and prisoner petitions
B. civil - government
C. diversity of citizenship
D. civil - private
E. other, not applicable
F. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: A