{
  "id": 6798209,
  "title": "Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/lawyer-fined-5k-over-ai-hallucinated-witnesses-in-a-murder-case",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-11T20:44:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/994207/chatgpt-new-mexico-lawyer-fined-murder-appeal"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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 to \"verify the factual claims and legal […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}