Airport Safety Always Controls
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
16001_seminary_baggage_claim · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice AYes, because allowing the dog to sniff Mary's luggage was an unreasonable search.
Why it's attractive
Students overgeneralize that any police sensory investigation of luggage is a search.
Why it's wrong
Dog sniff of public luggage is not treated as an unreasonable search for MBE purposes.
Spot it next time
Drill dog-sniff fact patterns separately from home-curtilage dog-sniff cases.
16001_seminary_baggage_claim · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice BNo, because the police had a warrant for Mary's arrest.
Why it's attractive
The arrest warrant sounds like enough police authority and reaches the same No result.
Why it's wrong
The arrest warrant fact is adjacent; it does not give the evidence-linked reason for denying suppression.
Spot it next time
Underline the evidence to be suppressed, then pick the answer that explains that evidence.
16001_seminary_baggage_claim · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice CNo, because the possibility of airline hijacking makes routine examination of passengers' luggage necessary to protect the public against a clear and present danger.
Why it's attractive
Airport safety feels powerful and public-protective.
Why it's wrong
Hijacking safety is a wrong-frame rationale for a marijuana dog-sniff and drug-possession arrest.
Spot it next time
Ask whether the safety rationale matches the object searched for.
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