Depraved Heart
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 2 active questions. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- CRIMINAL2
Example wrong choices
21084_retreat-pavilion · CRIMINAL · Choice AInvoluntary manslaughter only, because Lydia did not intend to hit anyone
Why it's attractive
It treats lack of target intent as if it were the whole homicide analysis.
Why it's wrong
It treats lack of target intent as if it were the whole homicide analysis.
21084_retreat-pavilion · CRIMINAL · Choice BNo homicide liability, because the victim was not visible from outside
Why it's attractive
It invents a visibility requirement that the homicide law does not use.
Why it's wrong
It invents a visibility requirement that the homicide law does not use.
21084_retreat-pavilion · CRIMINAL · Choice DFirst-degree murder, because any gun death is automatically first degree
Why it's attractive
It turns a weapon fact into an automatic degree rule.
Why it's wrong
It turns a weapon fact into an automatic degree rule.
22409 · CRIMINAL · Choice BVoluntary manslaughter.
Why it's attractive
B names a real homicide category, but the stem gives no heat-of-passion, sudden-quarrel, adequate-provocation, or imperfect-self-defense fact.
Why it's wrong
B names a real homicide category, but the stem gives no heat-of-passion, sudden-quarrel, adequate-provocation, or imperfect-self-defense fact.
22409 · CRIMINAL · Choice CInvoluntary manslaughter.
Why it's attractive
C is attractive because the woman did not intend to kill, but the call asks the most serious crime. The tiger facts raise the grade above ordinary involuntary manslaughter.
Why it's wrong
C is attractive because the woman did not intend to kill, but the call asks the most serious crime. The tiger facts raise the grade above ordinary involuntary manslaughter.
22409 · CRIMINAL · Choice DNo crime.
Why it's attractive
D denies criminal liability despite a death caused by the woman's dangerous conduct.
Why it's wrong
D denies criminal liability despite a death caused by the woman's dangerous conduct.
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