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Independent Source Confusion

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

  • 16202_mission_fund_theft · CRIMINAL · Choice Bsustained, because the prosecutor may not bargain away the rights of one codefendant in a deal with another.

    Why it's wrong

    No such limit on prosecutorial discretion.

  • 16202_mission_fund_theft · CRIMINAL · Choice Coverruled, because a witness cannot be precluded from testifying if his testimony is given voluntarily.

    Why it's wrong

    Contradicts the fact of use immunity compulsion.

  • 16202_mission_fund_theft · CRIMINAL · Choice Doverruled, because the authorities suspected Peter even before he testified in the grand jury hearing.

    Why it's wrong

    Independent source exception requires a real, non-rumor source.

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