608 B Cross Examination Confusion
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
14898_grain_market_prior_violent_acts · EVIDENCE · Choice Badmitted as relevant evidence of Stephen's identity, plan, or motive.
Why it's attractive
The choice names real 404(b)(2) purposes, but the stem supplies no distinctive feature or scheme tying the priors to the charged crime, so the doctrine is not actually in play.
Why it's wrong
The choice names real 404(b)(2) purposes, but the stem supplies no distinctive feature or scheme tying the priors to the charged crime, so the doctrine is not actually in play.
14898_grain_market_prior_violent_acts · EVIDENCE · Choice Cexcluded, because such evidence can be elicited only during cross-examination.
Why it's attractive
The word 'only' is an absolute, and the stem shows a prosecution case-in-chief with a defendant who has not testified — there is no cross-examination to elicit anything.
Why it's wrong
The word 'only' is an absolute, and the stem shows a prosecution case-in-chief with a defendant who has not testified — there is no cross-examination to elicit anything.
14898_grain_market_prior_violent_acts · EVIDENCE · Choice Dadmitted as evidence of Stephen's propensity toward violence.
Why it's attractive
The choice openly states the propensity inference — the one use the taught anchor flags as forbidden; naming it does not make it admissible.
Why it's wrong
The choice openly states the propensity inference — the one use the taught anchor flags as forbidden; naming it does not make it admissible.
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