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Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case

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  • The Verge · September 11, 2026 20:44
    New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client's murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for failing…