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Provocation Trap

This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 2 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

  • CRIMINAL2

Example wrong choices

  • 14685_peter_hammer · CRIMINAL · Choice BVoluntary manslaughter.

    Why it's wrong

    Choice B is not the credited answer for this item.

  • 19864_vineyard_malice · CRIMINAL · Choice AVoluntary manslaughter, because Silas was acting under the heat of passion caused by the destruction of his livelihood.

    Why it's attractive

    Incorrect because property damage is not legally adequate provocation to reduce murder to manslaughter.

    Why it's wrong

    Incorrect because property damage is not legally adequate provocation to reduce murder to manslaughter.

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Provocation Trap — Trap Taxonomy | BarMatrix