All Impossibility Is Factual
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
14649_pageant_warehouse · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice AYes, because factual impossibility is no defense.
Why it's attractive
The fuse failed, so factual impossibility feels like the obvious attempt doctrine.
Why it's wrong
Factual impossibility is a true neighboring rule, but the intended completed act would not be arson.
Spot it next time
Apply SK-CRIM-DEFINITION-FIRST-01, then GK-CRIM-LEGAL-IMPOSSIBILITY-01.
14649_pageant_warehouse · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice BYes, because a mistake of law, even on the advice of an attorney, is no defense.
Why it's attractive
Lawyer advice makes mistake of law feel like the tested issue.
Why it's wrong
Mistake of law is the dominant wrong frame; the issue is legal impossibility.
Spot it next time
Ask whether the completed intended act would be a crime before considering excuses.
14649_pageant_warehouse · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice CNo, because his mistake negated a necessary mental state.
Why it's attractive
It reaches the right result and uses mental-state language.
Why it's wrong
Daniel intended to burn the building; the reason for no liability is not lack of mental state.
Spot it next time
Check both halves: result and reason.
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