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This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”

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Example wrong choices

  • 21778_honduras_pledge · EVIDENCE · Choice AIn a prosecution of the defendant for forging a check, the prosecution — without producing the check or explaining its absence — offers to call a witness who will testify that the defendant paid the witness for lumber delivered to the well site with a check to which the defendant signed the name “Barnabas Grant.”

    Why it's wrong

    Choice A is not the credited answer for this item.

  • 21778_honduras_pledge · EVIDENCE · Choice BIn a personal injury action, the defendant — without producing the X-ray or explaining its absence — calls a medical expert who testifies that based solely on the examination of an X-ray, it is her opinion that the plaintiff did not sustain a fracture of the leg while helping mix concrete for the well project.

    Why it's wrong

    Choice B is not the credited answer for this item.

  • 21778_honduras_pledge · EVIDENCE · Choice DIn a lawsuit by the plaintiff against the state tax collector, the plaintiff offers to testify to the contents of her state income tax return, asserting that she sent the original to the state tax collector as required by law, and that she did not keep a copy.

    Why it's wrong

    Choice D is not the credited answer for this item.

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