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Accident Means No Crime

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

  • 22409 · CRIMINAL · Choice BVoluntary manslaughter.

    Why it's attractive

    B names a real homicide category, but the stem gives no heat-of-passion, sudden-quarrel, adequate-provocation, or imperfect-self-defense fact.

    Why it's wrong

    B names a real homicide category, but the stem gives no heat-of-passion, sudden-quarrel, adequate-provocation, or imperfect-self-defense fact.

  • 22409 · CRIMINAL · Choice CInvoluntary manslaughter.

    Why it's attractive

    C is attractive because the woman did not intend to kill, but the call asks the most serious crime. The tiger facts raise the grade above ordinary involuntary manslaughter.

    Why it's wrong

    C is attractive because the woman did not intend to kill, but the call asks the most serious crime. The tiger facts raise the grade above ordinary involuntary manslaughter.

  • 22409 · CRIMINAL · Choice DNo crime.

    Why it's attractive

    D denies criminal liability despite a death caused by the woman's dangerous conduct.

    Why it's wrong

    D denies criminal liability despite a death caused by the woman's dangerous conduct.

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