Automatic Cure Misconception
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
20095_furniture-workshop · CRIMINAL · Choice AYes, because independent source doctrine applies only to witness testimony, not physical evidence.
Why it's attractive
Limiting the independent-source doctrine to 'witness testimony only' is an unsupported restriction. The answer text imposes a limitation that the doctrine doesn't have.
Why it's wrong
Limiting the independent-source doctrine to 'witness testimony only' is an unsupported restriction. The answer text imposes a limitation that the doctrine doesn't have.
20095_furniture-workshop · CRIMINAL · Choice CNo, because any later warrant automatically cures an earlier illegal search.
Why it's attractive
The word 'automatically' is an absolute. A later warrant cures only when it is genuinely independent — not automatically. The overclaim is visible from the choice text.
Why it's wrong
The word 'automatically' is an absolute. A later warrant cures only when it is genuinely independent — not automatically. The overclaim is visible from the choice text.
20095_furniture-workshop · CRIMINAL · Choice DYes, because once officers saw the tools unlawfully, the evidence was permanently tainted.
Why it's attractive
The word 'permanently' is an absolute — the exclusionary rule has exceptions, including independent source. An absolute claim is structurally suspect.
Why it's wrong
The word 'permanently' is an absolute — the exclusionary rule has exceptions, including independent source. An absolute claim is structurally suspect.
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