Foreseeability Misfit
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
- CRIMINAL1
Example wrong choices
22384_choir-camp-tuning-fork · CRIMINAL · Choice AYes, because the choir director was permanently deprived of the tuning fork.
Why it's attractive
Focuses on the owner's eventual loss instead of the defendant's mental state at the taking.
Why it's wrong
Focuses on the owner's eventual loss instead of the defendant's mental state at the taking.
22384_choir-camp-tuning-fork · CRIMINAL · Choice BYes, because theft of the tuning fork from the defendant's tote bag was foreseeable.
Why it's attractive
Imports a later-causation frame the offense does not use.
Why it's wrong
Imports a later-causation frame the offense does not use.
22384_choir-camp-tuning-fork · CRIMINAL · Choice DNo, because theft of the tuning fork from the defendant's tote bag was a superseding cause.
Why it's attractive
Also chases the later theft rather than the defendant's original intent.
Why it's wrong
Also chases the later theft rather than the defendant's original intent.
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