You can always do the dailies to drop 40 crime/infamy points each day. So if you do a few little crimes here and there, you'll get a chance to rectify those transgressions with the dailies before becoming wanted.

One additional note, once you become Jury eligible, your trial counts reset if you become wanted. I found that out the hard way and now need another 5 jury duties to get that cloak instead of the remaining 3 I had waiting.