Inchoate Crimes
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
21121_ephesus_incense_attempt · CRIMINAL · Choice ASilas is not guilty because the presence of a disguised official constitutes legal entrapment.
Why it's attractive
Incorrect because undercover stings are not entrapment, and the call is about impossibility.
Why it's wrong
Incorrect because undercover stings are not entrapment, and the call is about impossibility.
21121_ephesus_incense_attempt · CRIMINAL · Choice BSilas is guilty only if he had previously tested the substance to confirm its sacred properties.
Why it's attractive
Incorrect because the law judges intent and belief, not scientific verification.
Why it's wrong
Incorrect because the law judges intent and belief, not scientific verification.
21121_ephesus_incense_attempt · CRIMINAL · Choice DSilas is not guilty because it was factually impossible for him to possess forbidden incense when the pouch contained only dust.
Why it's attractive
Incorrect because factual impossibility is never a defense to attempt.
Why it's wrong
Incorrect because factual impossibility is never a defense to attempt.
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