Court-Martial Trial Practice Blog
In some, non-U.S., police circles it’s called gilding the lily. But you are not supposed to get caught.
Officer Investigated For Perjury After DUI Case Falls Apart, By Dan Morse, Washington Post, 7 May 2009.
Although gilding the lily is really more subtle than this. It’s those oft remembered micro-facts months after the case, arrest, interrogation, etc.