Rock v. Arkansas 483 U.S. 44, 107 S.Ct. 2704, 97 L.Ed.2d 37 (1987) Rock got into an argument with her abusive husband.  She called the police, who arrived at the scene to find the husband dead, and Rock holding a gun, completely hysterical. Rock professed that she could not remember what happened.  Her attorney took her to a hypnotist, and under hypnosis, she stated that she was holding the gun, but never actually pulled the trigger. A gun expert was brought in, and he found that the gun was defective and prone to firing when knocked around. At trial, Rock attempted to introduce the hypnotically-derived testimony. The prosecution objected on the grounds that the testimony was inadmissible. The prosecution argued that a defendant's testimony is limited to matters that they can prove were remembered before hypnosis. The Trial Judge excluded the testimony, but allowed the gun expert's analysis into evidence. Arkansas has a State law that excluded hypnotically-derived testimony on the grounds that it was inherently unreliable. The Trial Court convicted Rock of manslaughter.  She appealed. The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed.  Rock appealed. Rock argued that the limitations on her testimony violated her right to present a defense.  However, the Arkansas Supreme Court found that "the dangers of admitting this kind of testimony far outweigh whatever probative value it may have." The US Supreme Court reversed and remanded for a new trial. The US Supreme Court found that under the 6th Amendment a defendant has a right to testify in their own defense.  The Court found that the Arkansas Supreme Court failed to perform a constitutional analysis. While the US Supreme Court noted that hypnotically-derived testimony is often incorrect, it isn't always incorrect, and so Arkansas' absolute bar to hypnotically-derived testimony was an impermissible and arbitrary violation of the 6th Amendment right to testify in your own defense. The Court noted that in this case, the gun expert's findings corroborated Rock's hypnotically-derived memory, which is a good argument for admissibility. In a dissent, it was argued that an individual's right to represent evidence is always subject to reasonable restrictions and that the right to present evidence is not absolute.  There is a convincing argument that hypnotically-derived testimony is inherently unreliable, and therefore it is reasonable for Arkansas to bar it from admissibility.