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The lawyer for the defense charged that she suspected the police of having illegally taped her confidential conversations with her client and then used the information obtained to find evidence supporting their murder charges.
A. used the information obtained to find evidence supporting
B. used such information as they obtained to find evidence supporting
C.used the information they had obtained to find evidence that would support
D. of using the information they had obtained to find evidence that would support
E. of using such information as they obtained to find evidence that would be supportive of
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D.
caluse parallelism
she suspected the police of having Y
and of using ....
Left D and E
D correctly uses past perfect tense to show flow of events.
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This is a good one. D.
I think, the use of 'then' just before the underlined part makes the difference btw choosing A/B/C or D/E. It forces the 'ing' parallelism.
E is awkward. So we are left with D.
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I vote for D.
llism. ...of having..........of using.....
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I was almost about to go for A...but then realized we have two independent clauses that must be || therefore D is best...
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fresinha12 wrote: I was almost about to go for A...but then realized we have two independent clauses that must be || therefore D is best...
This is what I was struggling to say!! 
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The correct indiom is "she suspected..... then used....." Eliminate D and E.
Eliminate C since the past perfect tense is not neccessary, i.e. "had obtained." Eliminate B because "such information as they obtained" is awkward.
I pick A.
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Dam.... i missed the parallelism... Yes the answer is D.
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gsr wrote: fresinha12 wrote: I was almost about to go for A...but then realized we have two independent clauses that must be || therefore D is best... This is what I was struggling to say!! i doubt that the sentence has two ICs. if any, post later...
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Re: SC #The lawyer for the defense [#permalink]
04 Nov 2005, 09:01
ong wrote: The lawyer for the defense charged that she suspected the police of having illegally taped her confidential conversations with her client and then used the information obtained to find evidence supporting their murder charges.
A. used the information obtained to find evidence supporting
B. used such information as they obtained to find evidence supporting
C.used the information they had obtained to find evidence that would support
D. of using the information they had obtained to find evidence that would support
E. of using such information as they obtained to find evidence that would be supportive of
C - This is the one which has used (matches with taped) and "they" referring to the police.
Update - Went by the wrong word. ||ism is for having / using and the choice is D.
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This is indeed a tough one!
I'm going with <b>A</b> off an educated guess (answering at real GMAT speed). Answer choice "A" is the shortest answer and that IS my guessing strategy on SC 
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Re: SC #The lawyer for the defense [#permalink]
05 Nov 2005, 08:32
D it is
// lism: having and using
Past tense: had obtained--> correct
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it is D.
The lawyer .......... suspected the police of having illegally taped ...... and then of using..... should be the || construction.
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Re: SC #The lawyer for the defense [#permalink]
06 Nov 2005, 10:00
I go for D, because of parallelism "of having" and "of using"- Choice E with would be supportive of is too wordy for me.
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the right parallelism here should be "having taped" and "having used", so the best one in my opinion is C even if "having" is not expressed (dont think it's necessary to express it)
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thank you everybody for joining.
the answer is D
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