hoke up

Hoke up some civil charge like suspicion of vehicular homicide.

They can hoke up some phony numbers like unrealistically large reductions in military spending and an impossible-to-achieve revenue increase and hope that will lead them into serious talks with the White House.

And I have no stomach for starting off with the alternative: hoke up some evidence that he was up to something rotten and say I did it for the good of Amber.

Not if you know how determined police can hoke up evidence, how some prosecutors want convictions at any cost, the incompetence of many defense attorneys and the credulity of juries in accepting evidence that may only appear persuasive.