Meaning of testilying | Babel Free

Definitions

The act of a police officer giving false testimony (perjury).

US, euphemistic, informal, uncountable

Examples

“Several officers also told us that the practice of police falsification in connection with such arrests is so common in certain precincts that it has spawned its own word: “testilying.“”

““Testilying,” police fabricating evidence or lying in court, is a type of police corruption.”

“Shadow vigilantism can also be seen in the conduct of officials within the system who feel morally justified in subverting the system because they see it as regularly and indifferently producing failures of justice.[…] It’s also apparent in police “testilying” to subvert search and seizure technicalities (and judicial toleration of it) and in prosecutorial overcharging to compensate for past perceived justice failures.”

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