Adjacent Confession Clutter
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
14569_capernaum_calligraphy · CRIMINAL · Choice Agrant the motion on the ground that the search was carried out with excessive force.
Why it's attractive
The choice points to the wrist injury, but the call asks about use of the silver crosses.
Why it's wrong
The choice points to the wrist injury, but the call asks about use of the silver crosses.
14569_capernaum_calligraphy · CRIMINAL · Choice Cdeny the motion on the ground that the search was incident to a lawful arrest.
Why it's attractive
The search happened before the arrest, so the search-incident label points to the wrong timing frame.
Why it's wrong
The search happened before the arrest, so the search-incident label points to the wrong timing frame.
14569_capernaum_calligraphy · CRIMINAL · Choice Ddeny the motion on the ground that searches of students by school personnel on school grounds are reasonable when based on reasonable suspicion.
Why it's attractive
The school-search rule is real, but the stem's splitting fact is that police initiated the search.
Why it's wrong
The school-search rule is real, but the stem's splitting fact is that police initiated the search.
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