All Fruits Suppressed
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
20127_jericho_trumpet · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice AYes, because a later warrant based on the statement cannot cure any constitutional violation.
Why it's attractive
The warrant language makes the answer sound precise because students expect taint to require a cure. The breaker is that the call is not about curing the warning failure; it is about whether voluntary-statement physical fruit is suppressed.
Why it's wrong
The answer turns a narrow physical-fruit remedy call into an absolute warrant-cure rule.
Spot it next time
Ask: is the prosecution offering the words or the object?
20127_jericho_trumpet · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice BYes, because all evidence derived from an unwarned statement is fruit of the poisonous tree.
Why it's attractive
The all-fruits rule borrows the familiar poisonous-tree image and feels protective of Miranda. The breaker is the Gold Key: voluntary unwarned testimonial statements are treated differently from physical evidence found through them.
Why it's wrong
The answer overclaims by saying all evidence derived from an unwarned statement is suppressed.
Spot it next time
Say: voluntary unwarned statement physical fruit generally comes in.
20127_jericho_trumpet · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice CNo, because Paul's voluntary statement means there was no Miranda violation at all.
Why it's attractive
The word voluntary feels like it should erase the Miranda problem. The breaker is the Silver Key: voluntariness changes the remedy layer, not the existence of the warning failure.
Why it's wrong
The answer points voluntariness at the wrong layer; voluntariness limits the remedy but does not erase the warning failure.
Spot it next time
Say: voluntary affects derivative evidence; it does not erase the warning problem.
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