Specific Intent
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
19035_retreat_cottage_handbells · CRIMINAL · Choice BLydia is guilty of burglary because she actually forced open a window, satisfying the breaking element.
Why it's attractive
It proves a breaking fact but ignores the intent requirement.
Why it's wrong
It proves a breaking fact but ignores the intent requirement.
19035_retreat_cottage_handbells · CRIMINAL · Choice CLydia is not guilty of burglary because she lacked the intent to commit a felony inside the dwelling.
Why it's attractive
It states the broad conclusion but does not identify the honest-mistake specific-intent rule.
Why it's wrong
It states the broad conclusion but does not identify the honest-mistake specific-intent rule.
19035_retreat_cottage_handbells · CRIMINAL · Choice DLydia is guilty of burglary because a reasonable person would have realized she was entering the wrong cottage.
Why it's attractive
It swaps honest mistake for a reasonable-person standard.
Why it's wrong
It swaps honest mistake for a reasonable-person standard.
22285_ruth_naomi · CRIMINAL · Choice ARuth mixed into the dough what she believed was a lethal amount of arsenic, but the white powder was only flour.
Why it's attractive
Ruth still thought she was using poison.
Why it's wrong
Ruth still thought she was using poison.
22285_ruth_naomi · CRIMINAL · Choice BRuth brushed the loaf with what she believed was rat poison, but the pharmacist had accidentally given her baking soda instead.
Why it's attractive
Ruth still thought she was using poison.
Why it's wrong
Ruth still thought she was using poison.
22285_ruth_naomi · CRIMINAL · Choice DRuth coated the loaf with real arsenic, but Naomi had already died from a heart attack before the supper began.
Why it's attractive
Naomi was dead, but Ruth believed she was alive.
Why it's wrong
Naomi was dead, but Ruth believed she was alive.
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