Self Defense Requires Serious Bodily Harm
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
17386_book_fair_shove · CRIMINAL · Choice ANo defense, because Daniel had a safe doorway through which he could retreat.
Why it's attractive
The choice uses the safe-exit fact but ignores the force type.
Why it's wrong
The choice uses the safe-exit fact but ignores the force type.
17386_book_fair_shove · CRIMINAL · Choice BSelf-defense only if Peter intended to cause death or serious bodily harm.
Why it's attractive
The choice imports a serious-harm threshold that belongs to deadly force.
Why it's wrong
The choice imports a serious-harm threshold that belongs to deadly force.
17386_book_fair_shove · CRIMINAL · Choice DNo defense, because an open-handed slap is never enough to permit self-defense.
Why it's attractive
The word never overstates the rule; the law does not require a person to absorb every slap.
Why it's wrong
The word never overstates the rule; the law does not require a person to absorb every slap.
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