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If your “gut” tells you that your personal feelings about a case are so intense that you may not be able to do a quality job for the client, you should:

MULTIPLE CHOICE: Please choose the BEST possible answer.    The law and the facts of an alleged crime are presented to a Grand Jury by a ________________; sometimes with the assistance of a(n) _________________ . 

An unsecured debt is one that is backed by a mortgage, pledge of collateral, or other lien; a debt for which the creditor has the right to pursue specific pledged property upon default.

The measure of the satisfaction received from the consumption of a good:  

TRUE/FALSE The purpose of the GRAND JURY is to make a determination of guilt or innocence. 

After the petition (and accompanying schedules) are filed, the case trustee will schedule a “meeting of creditors” which must take place (by bankruptcy code) between 40 and 60 days after the date the petition is filed.

The phrase “common law” has at least four meanings.

MULTIPLE CHOICE: Please choose the BEST possible answer.  Today the Fourth Amendment is understood as placing restraints on the government any time it detains (seizes) or searches a person or property. The Fourth Amendment also provides that “no warrants shall issue, but upon __________________________, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.”

MULTIPLE CHOICE: Please choose the BEST possible answer.  A search occurs when police intrude on a suspect’s right of privacy, and case law has determined that if suspects have no ______________________________ in something, then the 4th Amendment does not apply.  

FILL-IN-THE-BLANK: Use the text-box to write in the missing word(s). In Terry v. Ohio, the Court held that the search undertaken by the officer was _______________ under the Fourth Amendment and that the weapons seized could be introduced into evidence against Terry.