Force Makes Intent Irrelevant
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.”
Subject distribution
- Criminal Law1
Example wrong choices
14655_study_bible_case · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice Aacquitted, because he made no threats and was intoxicated.
Why it's attractive
It notices no threats and intoxication, both visible facts.
Why it's wrong
A attacks threats, but force is present; intoxication alone does not answer the intent problem.
Spot it next time
Mark the shove as force; then ask whether the answer addresses intent.
14655_study_bible_case · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice Cconvicted, because his intoxication was voluntary.
Why it's attractive
It uses the familiar rule that voluntary intoxication is usually not a defense.
Why it's wrong
C answers the voluntary-intoxication bait instead of the mistaken-ownership fact.
Spot it next time
Ask whether a separate mistake fact negates the target specific intent.
14655_study_bible_case · CRIMINAL_LAW · Choice Dconvicted, because mistake is no defense to robbery.
Why it's attractive
It sounds like a hard criminal-law rule and was the dominant wrong-answer trap.
Why it's wrong
D says mistake is no defense; the Gold Key says mistake can negate specific intent.
Spot it next time
Recall: robbery is force plus theft intent; mistake can negate theft intent.
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