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• If an investigation requires witness statements, it may be useful or desirable to: • Secure affidavits • Conduct a fact-finding hearing, where witnesses are placed under oath
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• An evidentiary hearing is not an adjudication • It is an investigatory tool – in that may be used to determine whether additional steps are warranted given the availability of competent evidence • In criminal law, examples of evidentiary hearings include: • Preliminary Hearing • Grand Jury
Evidentiary Hearing
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