Accessory Label Overused
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
- Criminal Law1
Example wrong choices
14728_bible_quest_projector · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice Anot guilty of larceny or attempted larceny, because Timothy did not commit any crime.
Why it's attractive
It correctly notices that Timothy did not commit a crime.
Why it's wrong
Timothy’s innocence is true but incomplete; it does not answer Lydia’s liability through an innocent agent.
Spot it next time
Apply Gold Key: guilty mind can act through innocent hand.
14728_bible_quest_projector · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice Bnot guilty of larceny but guilty of attempted larceny, because Lydia never acquired possession of the projector.
Why it's attractive
It correctly notices that Lydia never personally possessed the projector.
Why it's wrong
Lydia’s lack of personal possession is not dispositive once Timothy carried the projector under Lydia’s direction.
Spot it next time
Use Silver Key: who had the guilty mind and whose hand moved the property?
14728_bible_quest_projector · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice Cguilty of larceny as an accessory to Timothy.
Why it's attractive
Accessory language sounds lawyerly and nearby.
Why it's wrong
Accessory framing is the neighboring doctrine; Timothy is not the guilty principal.
Spot it next time
If immediate actor is innocent, use innocent-agent framing, not accessory framing.
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