New Mexico's Supreme Court fines a lawyer $5,000 for AI-fabricated witnesses in a murder appeal
The Verge (citing Reuters)·medium signal
In a filing on Wednesday 9 September, reported by Reuters and covered on 11 September, New Mexico's Supreme Court sanctioned a lawyer who included AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal of a murder conviction. This moves past the familiar hallucinated-citation sanctions into fabricated evidence and testimony in a capital-adjacent matter, which is a materially different category of failure.