Tosefta for Bekhorot 61:40
ביחיד מומחה הכא נמי ביחיד מומחה
He may examine his holy sacrifices', [the reason being] because if he wished, he could ask for their release [from a scholar].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' By pleading that the consecration was a mistake, thus finding a way out to free the animal from its sanctity. We therefore do not entertain the suspicion that he would declare the blemish to be a permanent one when it is transitory. This method, however, of releasing the animal from its holiness does not apply to a firstling which is hallowed from birth, and consequently there is room for suspicion here.');"><sup>22</sup></span>
Tosefta Demai
Originally they (i.e., the Sages) said that [as to] a chaver that becomes a tax collector, we force him out of the chaverut [presumably, permanently], and then they reconsidered to say, that as long as he is a tax collector, he is not [even considered] trustworthy, [but once he] separates from [his office of] tax collector, behold, he is [considered] trustworthy. (Cf. Bekh. 31a:4.)
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