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

Stephen Aarons, a lawyer in New Mexico, was fined $5,000 and held in contempt by the state's Supreme Court for including fabricated witnesses and false police testimony in a murder conviction appeal. According to a court filing on Wednesday, Aarons failed to verify factual claims and legal citations before submitting the documents to the court. The case involved an appeal on behalf of his client's murder conviction.

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