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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