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Strengthen Post Thu Jun 21, 2012 11:05 am
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    In a certain municipality, a judge overturned a suspect’s conviction for possession of an illegal weapon. The suspect had fled upon seeing police and subsequently discarded the illegal weapon after the police gave chase. The judge reasoned as follows: the only cause for the police giving chase was the suspect’s flight; by itself, flight from the police does not create a reasonable suspicion of a criminal act; evidence collected during an illegal chase is inadmissible; therefore, the evidence in this case was inadmissible.

    Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the judge’s decision that the evidence was inadmissible?
    (A) Flight from the police could create a reasonable suspicion of a criminal act as long as other significant factors are involved.
    (B) People can legally flee from the police only when those people are not involved in a criminal act at the time.
    (C) Police can legally give chase to a person only when the person’s actions have created a reasonable suspicion of a criminal act.
    (D) Flight from the police should not itself be considered a criminal act.
    (E) In all cases in which a person’s actions have created a reasonable suspicion of a criminal act, police can legally give chase to that person

    OA is C

    How do you reason this problem. Why not D ?

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    Post Thu Jun 21, 2012 11:20 am
    The problem with D is that there's nothing in the argument about flight being a criminal act. The actual crime was possession of an illegal weapon, and the flight was simply the reason that the police gave chase.

    A--depends on what the other "significant factors" are

    B--the argument is concerned with the legality of the chase, not fleeing

    C--correct, since the judge argues that the chase was illegal because flight itself doesn't create reasonable suspicion

    D--covered above

    E--can we really extrapolate to "all cases"? I don't think we can.

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    Post Mon Jun 25, 2012 8:06 am
    beautiful question!

    certainly a 700 level question!

    Thanks for posting ! whats the source?

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