Crime Category Makes Object Relevant
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.”
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Example wrong choices
20760_rubber_stamp_mail_fraud · EVIDENCE · Choice AAdmit the stamp only as demonstrative evidence of what rubber stamps generally look like.
Why it's attractive
The choice gives the student a fallback use, so the stamp feels admissible even without a case link. The breaker is that the stem never offered the stamp for that demonstrative purpose.
Why it's wrong
The choice invents a demonstrative use not supplied by the stem.
Spot it next time
Ask whether the stem actually offered the object for that purpose.
20760_rubber_stamp_mail_fraud · EVIDENCE · Choice BExclude the stamp only because it is unfairly prejudicial as a matter of law.
Why it's attractive
The choice reaches exclusion, so it feels close to the credited answer. The breaker is that it makes prejudice the exclusive legal reason and skips the more basic missing-connection problem.
Why it's wrong
The choice reaches the correct outcome but overclaims with 'only' and 'as a matter of law' while skipping the connection layer.
Spot it next time
Cut 'only' / 'as a matter of law' when a more basic live layer is visible.
20760_rubber_stamp_mail_fraud · EVIDENCE · Choice CAdmit the stamp because all office stamps are relevant in a mail-fraud trial.
Why it's attractive
The choice lets the crime label do the work: mail fraud sounds like it could involve a stamp. The breaker is the word 'all,' because an object category is not a connection to this case.
Why it's wrong
The choice treats all objects in a category as automatically relevant.
Spot it next time
Treat 'all' category language as an overclaim unless the stem supplies a connection.
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