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This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 9 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

CRIMINAL3
Contracts2
Real Property2
Constitutional Law1
Evidence1

Example wrong choices

first 20

14355_zion-embassy · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice ANo, because Congress has the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and therefore the statute is binding on the President.
Why it's wrong
Choice A is not the credited answer for this item.
14355_zion-embassy · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice CNo, because Congress has the power to implement treaties, and therefore the statute is binding on the President.
Why it's wrong
Choice C is not the credited answer for this item.
14355_zion-embassy · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice DYes, because Congress has no jurisdiction over matters outside U.S. borders.
Why it's wrong
Choice D is not the credited answer for this item.
14396_easter_handbell_plan · CONTRACTS · Choice AYes, because the written protection agreement will be strictly construed against Barnabas as the drafter.
Why it's attractive
The answer talks about construing drafted language, but the call asks enforceability after statutory violation.
Why it's wrong
The answer talks about construing drafted language, but the call asks enforceability after statutory violation.
14396_easter_handbell_plan · CONTRACTS · Choice CNo, because the protection agreement is not a divisible contract.
Why it's attractive
Divisibility has no matching fact in the stem.
Why it's wrong
Divisibility has no matching fact in the stem.
14396_easter_handbell_plan · CONTRACTS · Choice DNo, because the protection agreement violated the statute.
Why it's attractive
The statutory violation is real, but the answer omits the protected-class exception.
Why it's wrong
The statutory violation is real, but the answer omits the protected-class exception.
14443_bookshop_mural_release · CONTRACTS · Choice AYes, because the parol evidence rule bars proof of the later oral modification.
Why it's attractive
The oral change happened later, after the written contract.
Why it's wrong
The oral change happened later, after the written contract.
14443_bookshop_mural_release · CONTRACTS · Choice BNo, because the oral modification was made in good faith and therefore enforceable.
Why it's attractive
The stem describes artistic services, not goods.
Why it's wrong
The stem describes artistic services, not goods.
14443_bookshop_mural_release · CONTRACTS · Choice DYes, because a discharge of a contractual duty under a written contract must itself be in writing.
Why it's attractive
D says every discharge under a written contract must be in writing.
Why it's wrong
D says every discharge under a written contract must be in writing.
14594_consent-plainview-tapestry · CRIMINAL · Choice AYes, because the officers' entry into the home was the fruit of an illegal search of Stephen, and the evidence found inside the house is tainted.
Why it's wrong
Choice A is not the credited answer for this item.
14594_consent-plainview-tapestry · CRIMINAL · Choice BYes, because the officers did not inform Lydia that she had the right to refuse consent.
Why it's wrong
Choice B is not the credited answer for this item.
14594_consent-plainview-tapestry · CRIMINAL · Choice DNo, because the tip together with the pistol and address list found on Stephen provided probable cause, and the officers would inevitably have obtained a warrant.
Why it's wrong
Choice D is not the credited answer for this item.
14854_exodus_ark_release · EVIDENCE · Choice ANo, because Mary denied that the loose latch caused Lydia’s injury.
Why it's attractive
Causation denial is a merits fact; the call asks admissibility.
Why it's wrong
Causation denial is a merits fact; the call asks admissibility.
14854_exodus_ark_release · EVIDENCE · Choice BYes, because the rule excluding offers of compromise does not protect statements of fact made during compromise negotiations.
Why it's attractive
Gold Key says Rule 408 protects factual statements made during compromise negotiations.
Why it's wrong
Gold Key says Rule 408 protects factual statements made during compromise negotiations.
14854_exodus_ark_release · EVIDENCE · Choice DYes, as a statement by an agent about a matter within the scope of her authority.
Why it's attractive
Silver Key: clearing hearsay does not clear the policy-exclusion layer.
Why it's wrong
Silver Key: clearing hearsay does not clear the policy-exclusion layer.
14956_barnabas-bakery-assumption · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice ANo, because Barnabas remained personally liable on the note.
Why it's attractive
This choice turns the key personal-liability fact in the wrong direction once the Gold Key is known.
Why it's wrong
This choice turns the key personal-liability fact in the wrong direction once the Gold Key is known.
14956_barnabas-bakery-assumption · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice BYes, because Barnabas's sale of the bakery building released him from personal liability on the note.
Why it's attractive
The answer says Barnabas wins, but it assigns the win to a release that the stem never gives.
Why it's wrong
The answer says Barnabas wins, but it assigns the win to a release that the stem never gives.
14956_barnabas-bakery-assumption · REAL_PROPERTY · Choice CNo, because foreclosure proceedings had to be initiated before Barnabas could seek reimbursement from Lydia.
Why it's attractive
The answer adds a procedural step not present in the call or the reimbursement rule.
Why it's wrong
The answer adds a procedural step not present in the call or the reimbursement rule.
16181_border-flock-dual-sovereignty · CRIMINAL · Choice AYes, because the double jeopardy protection prohibits a second prosecution following a conviction for the same offense.
Why it's attractive
states the familiar same-sovereign DJ rule but ignores that two different states are prosecuting
Why it's wrong
states the familiar same-sovereign DJ rule but ignores that two different states are prosecuting
16181_border-flock-dual-sovereignty · CRIMINAL · Choice BYes, because the government is collaterally estopped under the double jeopardy protection from prosecuting a defendant a second time for the same conduct that led to an earlier conviction.
Why it's attractive
invokes a preclusion label that is not the operative double-jeopardy bar
Why it's wrong
invokes a preclusion label that is not the operative double-jeopardy bar

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