Proximate Cause
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
14676_church_youth_accusation · CRIMINAL · Choice Adid not intend to cause Peter's death.
Why it's wrong
Choice A is not the credited answer for this item.
14676_church_youth_accusation · CRIMINAL · Choice Bdid not act with malice.
Why it's wrong
Choice B is not the credited answer for this item.
14676_church_youth_accusation · CRIMINAL · Choice Dacted under extreme emotional distress.
Why it's wrong
Choice D is not the credited answer for this item.
18171_chapel_offering_box · CRIMINAL · Choice ANo, because the guard, not Daniel or a co-felon, fired the fatal shot.
Why it's attractive
The answer contradicts the jurisdiction sentence.
Why it's wrong
The answer contradicts the jurisdiction sentence.
18171_chapel_offering_box · CRIMINAL · Choice BYes, but only because Daniel personally fired a gun.
Why it's attractive
The answer says only because Daniel personally fired, but he did not.
Why it's wrong
The answer says only because Daniel personally fired, but he did not.
18171_chapel_offering_box · CRIMINAL · Choice CNo, because the choir director was not the intended victim of the robbery.
Why it's attractive
The answer adds an intended-victim requirement not in the call.
Why it's wrong
The answer adds an intended-victim requirement not in the call.
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