404b Plan
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.”
Subject distribution
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Example wrong choices
22231_revival_bus_cards · EVIDENCE · Choice AThe number of fuel cards in the defendant's possession makes it likely that she stole them.
Why it's attractive
stealing cards is not the charged fraudulent-use issue
Why it's wrong
stealing cards is not the charged fraudulent-use issue
22231_revival_bus_cards · EVIDENCE · Choice BThe defendant's possession of 41 fuel cards in names other than her own counts as an admission by conduct.
Why it's attractive
possession alone is not classic consciousness-of-guilt conduct
Why it's wrong
possession alone is not classic consciousness-of-guilt conduct
22231_revival_bus_cards · EVIDENCE · Choice DOnce that many cards were found, the defendant had to explain why she had them.
Why it's attractive
the prosecution cannot force the defendant to explain suspicious possession
Why it's wrong
the prosecution cannot force the defendant to explain suspicious possession
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