All Illegal Evidence 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
14616_good_shepherd_cyber_watch · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice ADeny the motion as to all images.
Why it's attractive
It treats Lydia as a private actor throughout.
Why it's wrong
A flattens two searches into one result and ignores the government-contact pivot before the second search.
Spot it next time
Circle the agent reward event and ask whether it changes the second search.
14616_good_shepherd_cyber_watch · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice BGrant the motion as to all images, because Lydia acted without probable cause.
Why it's attractive
Probable cause sounds like the standard for every search problem.
Why it's wrong
B uses probable cause as a universal private-search standard, which is not the rule.
Spot it next time
Ask who did the search and whether the government induced it before applying search standards.
14616_good_shepherd_cyber_watch · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice CGrant the motion as to all images, because Lydia violated the federal interception statute.
Why it's attractive
The statute was stipulated to be violated, so students convert violation into suppression.
Why it's wrong
C proves a stipulated statutory violation but does not answer the suppression remedy for all images.
Spot it next time
Ask whether the rule proves illegality only or also proves suppression.
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