【MD每日一问】LR 6#

玛莎丁丁

When Alicia Green borrowed a neighbor's car without permission, the police merely gave her a warning. However, when Peter Foster did the same thing, he was charged with automobile theft. Peter came to the attention of the police because the car he was driving was hit by a speeding taxi. Alicia was stopped because the car she was driving had defective taillights. It is true that the car Peter took got damaged and the car Alicia took did not, but since it was the taxi that caused the damage this difference was not due to any difference in the blameworthiness of their behavior. Therefore, Alicia should also have been charged with automobile theft.

19. If all of the claims offered in support of the conclusion are accurate, each of the following could be true EXCEPT:

(A) The interests of justice would have been better served if the police had released Peter Foster with a warning.
(B) Alicia Green had never before driven a car belonging to someone else without first securing the owner's permission.
(C) Peter Foster was hit by the taxi while he was running a red light, whereas Alicia Green drove with extra care to avoid drawing the attention of the police to the car she had taken.
(D) Alicia Green barely missed hitting a pedestrian when she sped through a red light ten minutes before she was stopped by the police for driving a car that had defective taillights.
(E) Peter Foster had been cited for speeding twice in the preceding month, whereas Alicia Green had never been cited for a traffic violation.

official answer: come up later

simonshen

D如果是真的话跟题目不矛盾。就算Alicia十分钟前超速了，但那是十分钟前，跟她后来被因为尾灯破损而被警察拦下来根本没有任何联系。而且那个拦她下来的警察也很可能根本不知道Alicia十分钟前超过速。被拦下来仅仅是因为尾灯破损，所以Alicia在被拦下来这件事上没有自身的过错。

玛莎丁丁

yes, it's C
what do you think about D?

simonshen

是否是C 啊？
如果Peter是因为闯红灯而导致被超速的taxi撞了以后被逮住的话，那说明Peter对撞车事件也负有一定责任，这个跟题目里说的“since it was the taxi that caused the damage this difference was not due to any difference in the blameworthiness of their behavior”有矛盾了。所以如果题目里说的都为真的话，C就不可能是真的。