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All Administrative Searches Are Warrantless

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

  • 14599_bethany_stoneworks_inventory · CRIMINAL · Choice Adenied, because warrantless administrative inspections of commercial premises are valid without a warrant.

    Why it's attractive

    The answer says commercial premises generally, while the stem gives a special regulated industry.

    Why it's wrong

    The answer says commercial premises generally, while the stem gives a special regulated industry.

  • 14599_bethany_stoneworks_inventory · CRIMINAL · Choice Csustained, because the safety-and-theft purpose of the statute is merely a pretext for conducting criminal searches.

    Why it's attractive

    The stem gives a routine regulatory inspection, but the answer treats the search as ordinary criminal pretext.

    Why it's wrong

    The stem gives a routine regulatory inspection, but the answer treats the search as ordinary criminal pretext.

  • 14599_bethany_stoneworks_inventory · CRIMINAL · Choice Dsustained, because the inspection code gives mine inspectors and police unbridled discretion to conduct warrantless searches.

    Why it's attractive

    Unbridled means no meaningful limits; the stem lists limits.

    Why it's wrong

    Unbridled means no meaningful limits; the stem lists limits.

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