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Actual Loss Equals Larceny

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

  • 16112_retreat_page-marker · CRIMINAL · Choice Aconvicted, because Professor Daniel was permanently deprived of the marker.

    Why it's attractive

    It uses later loss to supply an earlier mental state.

    Why it's wrong

    It uses later loss to supply an earlier mental state.

  • 16112_retreat_page-marker · CRIMINAL · Choice Bacquitted, because theft of the marker from Martha's backpack was a superseding cause.

    Why it's attractive

    It acquits through causation instead of the missing larceny intent.

    Why it's wrong

    It acquits through causation instead of the missing larceny intent.

  • 16112_retreat_page-marker · CRIMINAL · Choice Cconvicted, because theft of the marker from Martha's backpack was foreseeable.

    Why it's attractive

    Foreseeability is not the larceny mental-state test.

    Why it's wrong

    Foreseeability is not the larceny mental-state test.

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