This is where, for fun and education, we play alongside Thomas on T3BE questions from the multistate bar exam.

It's still a little unclear to me how we best manage RTTBE posts with the fact that there are dedicated T3BE episodes (which would/are itself open to being posted), for now I'm inclined just to let all discussion flow: You can discuss anything T3BE in here if you want, and anyone can post the T3BE episode separately too. Just make sure to make it obvious if you're not playing along with the RTTBE.

Also, for now, we're just going to do the "public" T3BE question for simplicity.

The answer to last week's question can be found discussed on T3BE Week 2!, for which I'll outsource most of the explanation.

The correct answer was... "A. No, because the man had no reasonable expectation of privacy in garbage left in the alley." Again, listen to the episode for a full explanation, but the relevant SCOTUS case citation is California v. Greenwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_v._Greenwood , the case where the fourth amendment was trashed

As always I'm lagging behind on scores, I've got a script in the works to make this quick to update so that shouldn't happen again. Most everyone who answered last week got it right though, so that's a nice start.

Rules:

• You have until next week's T3BE goes up to answer this question, (get your answers in by the end of this coming Tuesday at the latest in other words). The next RT2BE will go up not long after.

• You may simply comment with what choice you've given, though more discussion is encouraged!

• Feel free to discuss anything about RT2BE/T3BE/meta discussions of them here. However if you discuss anything about the question(s) itself please use spoilers to cover that discussion/answer so others don't look at it before they write their own down.

  • Type it exactly like this >!Answer E is Correct!<, and it will look like this: Answer E is Correct
  • Do not put a space between the exclamation mark and the text! In new reddit/the official app this will work, but it will not be in spoilers for those viewing in old reddit!

• Even better if you answer before you listen to what Thomas' guess was!

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Week 2's public question:

A husband and wife took their 12-year-old son to a political rally in an auditorium to hear a controversial United States senator speak. The speaker was late, and the wife stepped outside the auditorium to smoke a cigarette. While there, she saw a man placing what she believed to be a bomb against the back wall of the auditorium. She went back inside and told her husband what she had seen. Without alerting anyone, they took their son and left. Some 20 minutes later, the bomb exploded, killing 8 persons and injuring 50. In the jurisdiction, murder in the first degree is defined as an intentional homicide committed with premeditation and deliberation; murder in the second degree is defined as all other murder at common law; and manslaughter is defined as either a homicide in the heat of passion arising from adequate provocation or a homicide caused by gross negligence or reckless indifference to consequence.

As to the deaths of the eight persons, what crime, if any, did the wife commit?

A. Manslaughter.

B. Murder in the first degree.

C. Murder in the second degree.

D. No crime.