Related Clues:

• Accused's claim
• Perry Mason case, perhaps
• It may involve planted evidence
• Potential cause of a wrongful conviction
• Incrimination of someone on a false charge
• Leading at snooker — a conspiracy?
• Case of false incrimination
• Potter thus leading conspiracy
• Fix scaffolding in position
• Narrowly ahead at the snooker table in a staged event?
• Still at college, despite false allegation
• False charge
• Potter's game? Winning event that's staged
• Basis of the plot of 'Gone Girl'
• Whodunit misdirection