All Prior Crimes Are Out
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
14558_bethlehem_star_wristbands · CRIMINAL · Choice A{'text': 'reversed, because due process forbids requiring Timothy to prove entrapment by a preponderance of the evidence.', 'why_wrong_or_correct': 'Gold Key: this overextends the prosecution’s burden on offense elements to an affirmative defense.'}
Why it's attractive
This choice attacks one individual reversal ground; it requires the burden Gold Key.
Why it's wrong
This choice attacks one individual reversal ground; it requires the burden Gold Key.
14558_bethlehem_star_wristbands · CRIMINAL · Choice C{'text': 'reversed, because the prior-conviction evidence and the entrapment-burden instruction both require reversal.', 'why_wrong_or_correct': 'Silver Key: the both-grounds answer can survive only if both individual grounds survive.'}
Why it's attractive
The both answer survives only if both individual grounds survive.
Why it's wrong
The both answer survives only if both individual grounds survive.
14558_bethlehem_star_wristbands · CRIMINAL · Choice D{'text': 'reversed, because the court erred by admitting the records of Timothy’s earlier counterfeit-ticket convictions as substantive evidence.', 'why_wrong_or_correct': 'Gold Key: entrapment makes predisposition a live rebuttal issue, so similar prior convictions can be admissible for that purpose.'}
Why it's attractive
This choice needs the predisposition Gold Key; ordinary prior-crimes instincts are not enough.
Why it's wrong
This choice needs the predisposition Gold Key; ordinary prior-crimes instincts are not enough.
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