Fabricated Threshold
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
18279_bookstore_alley_replica · CRIMINAL · Choice BNo, because Stephen did not actually have a real gun.
Why it's attractive
The later prop discovery does not answer what Ruth reasonably believed at the shot.
Why it's wrong
The later prop discovery does not answer what Ruth reasonably believed at the shot.
18279_bookstore_alley_replica · CRIMINAL · Choice CYes, but only because Stephen demanded the deposit satchel.
Why it's attractive
The satchel demand supplies context but does not itself justify deadly force.
Why it's wrong
The satchel demand supplies context but does not itself justify deadly force.
18279_bookstore_alley_replica · CRIMINAL · Choice DNo, because deadly force may be used only after the attacker fires first.
Why it's attractive
Self-defense does not require the defender to wait for the attacker to fire first.
Why it's wrong
Self-defense does not require the defender to wait for the attacker to fire first.
22274_ramshorn_mask_sweep · CRIMINAL · Choice ANo, because the back-room search was incident to the arrest.
Why it's attractive
Both A and B admit; the trigger for incident-to-arrest (immediate control) isn't satisfied for a wardrobe in another room.
Why it's wrong
Both A and B admit; the trigger for incident-to-arrest (immediate control) isn't satisfied for a wardrobe in another room.
22274_ramshorn_mask_sweep · CRIMINAL · Choice CYes, because the officers had no search warrant for the farmhouse.
Why it's attractive
Overclaim tell: a flat warrant-required rule where warrant exceptions exist.
Why it's wrong
Overclaim tell: a flat warrant-required rule where warrant exceptions exist.
22274_ramshorn_mask_sweep · CRIMINAL · Choice DYes, because the wardrobe door was closed.
Why it's attractive
Fabricated threshold: a closed, person-sized container is a valid sweep target precisely because a person could hide there.
Why it's wrong
Fabricated threshold: a closed, person-sized container is a valid sweep target precisely because a person could hide there.
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