Sorry, but the phrase "testilying" comes to mind sometimes.
I have a personal feud with Mike Barnicle over a story that was planted by a detective / source of his who did not like my judge's opinion calling his source out for the numerous cases he got away with "harmless error" in his testimony. BTW - my judge and the panel affirmed the conviction based on other witnesses solid ID'ng of the perp despite the detective's attempt to introduce prior bad act testimony (a violation of the rules of evidence).
There's even more to this story, but it takes us too far from football.
