Confuses Mens Rea With Causation
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
20592_stephen-dock-flight · CRIMINAL · Choice BNo, because the motorboat actually struck Lydia
Why it's attractive
The stem does not say the motorboat was unforeseeable. An intervening event supersedes only if unforeseeable. A boat on a river is exactly the expected hazard when someone is forced into the water. Gold Key defeats this.
Why it's wrong
The stem does not say the motorboat was unforeseeable. An intervening event supersedes only if unforeseeable. A boat on a river is exactly the expected hazard when someone is forced into the water. Gold Key defeats this.
20592_stephen-dock-flight · CRIMINAL · Choice CYes, but only if Stephen intended the motorboat to hit Lydia
Why it's attractive
The phrase 'only if Stephen intended the motorboat' is a fabricated condition. Proximate cause asks foreseeability, not intent to the exact manner. Gold Key GK-CRIMINAL-FLIGHT-CAUSE-01 eliminates this.
Why it's wrong
The phrase 'only if Stephen intended the motorboat' is a fabricated condition. Proximate cause asks foreseeability, not intent to the exact manner. Gold Key GK-CRIMINAL-FLIGHT-CAUSE-01 eliminates this.
20592_stephen-dock-flight · CRIMINAL · Choice DNo, because Lydia chose to jump into the river
Why it's attractive
Lydia's jump was a flight response, not a truly independent act. The autonomy rule for causation breaking requires a genuinely unforeseeable, unrelated voluntary act — not an instinctive escape from a knife threat.
Why it's wrong
Lydia's jump was a flight response, not a truly independent act. The autonomy rule for causation breaking requires a genuinely unforeseeable, unrelated voluntary act — not an instinctive escape from a knife threat.
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