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Memory Loss Red Herring

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

  • 21607_retreat_lodge_forklift_recklessness · CRIMINAL · Choice AIt reduces the charge to involuntary manslaughter automatically.

    Why it's attractive

    Automatically is doing unsupported legal work.

    Why it's wrong

    Automatically is doing unsupported legal work.

  • 21607_retreat_lodge_forklift_recklessness · CRIMINAL · Choice BIt defeats murder because intoxication prevents malice.

    Why it's attractive

    This choice treats intoxication as a blanket malice eraser.

    Why it's wrong

    This choice treats intoxication as a blanket malice eraser.

  • 21607_retreat_lodge_forklift_recklessness · CRIMINAL · Choice CIt is a complete defense only if Daniel was too drunk to remember driving the forklift.

    Why it's attractive

    Remembering later is not the mental-element test.

    Why it's wrong

    Remembering later is not the mental-element test.

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