Issue Sense Wrong Element
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 5 active questions. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- Contracts2
- CRIMINAL2
- Evidence1
Example wrong choices
14602_walled-prayer-courtyard · CRIMINAL · Choice Cgrant the motion, because the deputy's only purpose in making the flight was to observe the courtyard.
Why it's attractive
Talks about officer purpose instead of the Fourth Amendment privacy test.
Why it's wrong
Talks about officer purpose instead of the Fourth Amendment privacy test.
17007_contract-rights-assign-discharge · CONTRACTS · Choice BStephanas was not capable of making or setting up merchant tents.
Why it's wrong
Choice B is not the credited answer for this item.
19123_stephen-stone-wall · CONTRACTS · Choice CNo, because Stephen was the one who asked to end the agreement.
Why it's attractive
Hangs the result on which party proposed the cancellation — a fact the call never made relevant.
Why it's wrong
Hangs the result on which party proposed the cancellation — a fact the call never made relevant.
22224_retreat-shuttle-bend · EVIDENCE · Choice ANo, because it is possible that accidents occurred that were not reported.
Why it's attractive
It points to a possible weakness in the inference, not to the actual admissibility predicate supplied by the record.
Why it's wrong
It points to a possible weakness in the inference, not to the actual admissibility predicate supplied by the record.
22224_retreat-shuttle-bend · EVIDENCE · Choice DYes, because the court issued a special instruction to the jury regarding the dangers of negative evidence.
Why it's attractive
It cites a courtroom management fact instead of the underlying relevance predicate.
Why it's wrong
It cites a courtroom management fact instead of the underlying relevance predicate.
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.
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