ANSWER ALL THREE (3) QUESTIONS. FULLY EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWERS. Please make your own answer.

1. You are having dinner at your favorite restaurant when it begins to rain. As you are leaving, you decide to take an umbrella from the umbrella stand to keep from getting soaked. You intend to return the umbrella to the restaurant the next day, although you say nothing to the restaurant's employees of your plan. When you arrive home, you enter the house and leave the umbrella beside the door so that you can find it in the morning.

A few minutes later, there is a knock at your door.When you answer it, a police officer is standing outside, and she states that she wishes to speak to you. As it is still raining, you invite the officer inside. Once inside, she sees two things: (1) the umbrella, and (2) a sandwich baggie laying on your coffee table that contains a green, leafy substance.

The officer then picks up the umbrella and the baggie. She immediately asks two questions. First, she asks if you are the owner of the umbrella, to which you respond in the negative.Then she asks whether you are the owner of the baggie containing the green, leafy substance. To this you respond in the affirmative.

The officer then places you under arrest, and says that you are being charged with larceny of the umbrella and possession of marijuana.

Prior to your trial, you tell your lawyer that you believe the seizure of the umbrella and the baggie violate your constitutional rights under the 4^th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (which you learned about in Professor Buscaglia's class). You also tell your lawyer that the statements you made to the police officer about the umbrella and the baggie were obtained in violation of your 5^th Amendment rights. Finally, you tell your lawyer that you cannot be convicted of larceny of the umbrella.

In your answer, fully explain:

1. Whether your 4^th Amendment rights were violated;
2. Whether your 5^th Amendment rights were violated; and
3. Whether you can be convicted of the crime of larceny for taking the umbrella.

2. You have decided to open your own business. For many years you have had an interest in landscape design and have had summer jobs in the past where you helped design gardens and general residential landscaping.

You have leased office space and purchased the necessary equipment for your business. You realize, however, that you will not be able to do all of the landscaping and gardening work yourself. You will need to hire workers to do the physical labor.

Would you operate your business as a sole proprietorship, a partnership, or a corporation? Please explain which business form you would choose and why.

3. You have started a new business called "Speedy Delivery." You provide delivery services for local retail stores. You need to hire drivers. You have decided not to hire them as employees, but rather as independent contractors. The drivers would have to provide their own trucks of a type and model that you choose, and the trucks would have to display "Speedy Delivery" on large signs on the side of the trucks. You will provide the signs. In addition, you will dispatch the trucks to pick-up and drop off the deliveries. The drivers will be paid an amount for each delivery, based on the distance travelled and the size of the package.The drivers are not allowed to use their trucks except to deliver for "Speedy Delivery."

Explain why you chose to hire the drivers as independent contractors rather than as employees and discuss whether you are concerned that you might be accused of mis-classifying the drivers as independent contractors.