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Factual Overlap Substituted For Offense Identity

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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  • CRIMINAL1

Example wrong choices

  • 17196_winepress-lever · CRIMINAL · Choice BNo, because the right to counsel had attached to the battery charge and the statements arose from the same criminal episode.

    Why it's attractive

    True premises (counsel on battery; same episode) but omits the dispositive element that the right is offense-specific.

    Why it's wrong

    True premises (counsel on battery; same episode) but omits the dispositive element that the right is offense-specific.

  • 17196_winepress-lever · CRIMINAL · Choice CYes, the statements are admissible, because Stephen waived his Sixth Amendment right by answering after receiving Miranda warnings.

    Why it's attractive

    Reaches 'admissible' but on a false ground: no Sixth Amendment right to the murder existed to be waived.

    Why it's wrong

    Reaches 'admissible' but on a false ground: no Sixth Amendment right to the murder existed to be waived.

  • 17196_winepress-lever · CRIMINAL · Choice DNo, because the detective deliberately framed the questions around the same incident to circumvent the Sixth Amendment.

    Why it's attractive

    Imports deliberate-elicitation/circumvention; the call turns on attachment, not police strategy.

    Why it's wrong

    Imports deliberate-elicitation/circumvention; the call turns on attachment, not police strategy.

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