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

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**Published:** September 11, 2026
**Author:** Emma Roth
**Source:** The Verge — AI
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/lawyer-fined-5k-over-ai-hallucinated-witnesses-in-a-murder-case

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…

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