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1. Gillis & Bikofsky: An arrest alone is embarrassing and damaging enough to your personal and professional reputation. A conviction is obviously that much worse. What matters now is limiting that damage in any way possible.
2. Sanford Furman: In one notable 1980 case, Ohio vs. Roberts, the Court held that a statement given by an accomplice, who is not present or available to testify in person, may be admitted in trial if the judge considers the statement to have "adequate indicia of reliability." Roberts ruled such statements reliable if, among other bases for reliability, they contained "particularized guarantees of trustworthiness." Through this "trustworthy" test, judges were given broad discretion regarding the admissibility of certain out-of-court statements. Due to this expanded discretion, however, some experts viewed the Roberts decision as a deviation from the rights guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, specifically, the victim's right to "confront" accusers.