What rights does the defendant enjoy during the preliminary hearing?

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As one court stated, the purpose of the preliminary hearing is intended to prevent "hasty, malicious, improvident, and oppressive prosecutions" and to ensure that "there are substantial grounds upon which a prosecution may be based" (Thies v. State, 178 Wis. 98 [1922]). The preliminary hearing resembles a criminal trial in that it is usually adversarial.

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