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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
20954_chapel-break · CRIMINAL · Choice BYes, because any invocation of silence permanently bars all police questioning
Why it's attractive
It turns the first invocation into a forever rule against all future questioning.
Why it's wrong
It turns the first invocation into a forever rule against all future questioning.
20954_chapel-break · CRIMINAL · Choice CYes, because a different detective cannot cure the earlier invocation
Why it's attractive
It makes the officer's identity, rather than the renewed warnings and break, do the legal work.
Why it's wrong
It makes the officer's identity, rather than the renewed warnings and break, do the legal work.
20954_chapel-break · CRIMINAL · Choice DNo, because silence invocations have no legal effect unless the suspect also requests counsel
Why it's attractive
It wrongly treats silence as if it mattered only when counsel is requested too.
Why it's wrong
It wrongly treats silence as if it mattered only when counsel is requested too.
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