hallucination
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Federal judge recommends sanctions on plaintiffs for faulty case citations
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A federal judge recommended that a pair of self-represented plaintiffs be subject to a range of sanctions for including flawed and non-existent case citations in their filings, potentially by using artificial intelligence. “A federal court is not a workshop for fictional writing. It is a forum that exists to uphold the law, administer justice, and…
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Denver judge wrongly barred witness testimony, appeals court rules in reversing 64-year sentence
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A Denver judge incorrectly blocked a key witness from testifying at a man’s trial, prompting Colorado’s second-highest court to overturn the defendant’s convictions and 64-year prison sentence last week. Jurors convicted Amos Rogers in 2020 of assaulting a police officer, drug possession and carrying a prohibited large-capacity gun magazine, among other offenses. Rogers did not…



