Minimum Distance Myth
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
21058_conference_booth_supply_nook · CRIMINAL · Choice ANo, because the movement was incidental to the robbery and did not have an independent criminal purpose.
Why it's attractive
The answer changes the frame from common law to a modern incidental-movement limitation.
Why it's wrong
The answer changes the frame from common law to a modern incidental-movement limitation.
21058_conference_booth_supply_nook · CRIMINAL · Choice CYes, but only because Daniel used the movement to make escape from law enforcement easier.
Why it's attractive
The answer says the purpose is what makes movement count.
Why it's wrong
The answer says the purpose is what makes movement count.
21058_conference_booth_supply_nook · CRIMINAL · Choice DNo, because twelve feet is too short a distance to count as meaningful asportation for kidnapping.
Why it's attractive
The answer invents a footage threshold.
Why it's wrong
The answer invents a footage threshold.
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