Absolute Qualifier Overclaim
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
- CRIMINAL1
Example wrong choices
19324_timothys_food_truck · CRIMINAL · Choice Bthe interior of a vehicle is always within the immediate control of an arrestee, so police may always search it incident to arrest.
Why it's attractive
"Always" is an absolute — no rule says police can *always* search a vehicle incident to arrest
Why it's wrong
"Always" is an absolute — no rule says police can *always* search a vehicle incident to arrest
19324_timothys_food_truck · CRIMINAL · Choice Cthe search of the food truck was not the result of a valid inventory search.
Why it's attractive
The statement is true but irrelevant — the call asks for the *reason*, not for an alternative exception that wasn't used
Why it's wrong
The statement is true but irrelevant — the call asks for the *reason*, not for an alternative exception that wasn't used
19324_timothys_food_truck · CRIMINAL · Choice Dsearches conducted without prior approval by a judge or magistrate are per se unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment.
Why it's attractive
"Per se" is an absolute — no Fourth Amendment rule says *every* warrantless search is automatically unreasonable
Why it's wrong
"Per se" is an absolute — no Fourth Amendment rule says *every* warrantless search is automatically unreasonable
Practice the questions that use this trap as a distractor and get full Wrong Answer Forensics on submit.
Practice questions using this trap →