Failed Plea Talks Unprotected
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
21467_outreach_supply_van · EVIDENCE · Choice AAdmit the statement because Daniel never entered a guilty plea.
Why it's attractive
The choice uses the fact that activates protection as the reason to admit.
Why it's wrong
The choice uses the fact that activates protection as the reason to admit.
21467_outreach_supply_van · EVIDENCE · Choice BExclude the statement only if Daniel made it under oath during a plea hearing.
Why it's attractive
The word "only" overlimits the rule.
Why it's wrong
The word "only" overlimits the rule.
21467_outreach_supply_van · EVIDENCE · Choice DAdmit the statement because plea-discussion protection begins only after the parties sign a written plea agreement.
Why it's attractive
Nothing in the stem or Gold Key requires a signed agreement before protection attaches.
Why it's wrong
Nothing in the stem or Gold Key requires a signed agreement before protection attaches.
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