New Mexico lawyer fined $5,000 for AI-hallucinated witnesses in murder appeal

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A New Mexico Supreme Court has fined attorney Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt after he submitted an AI-generated appellate brief containing fabricated witnesses and false police testimony in a murder case. The brief included invented witness accounts and inaccurate descriptions of the shooter's clothing and appearance. The court found that Aarons had failed to verify the factual claims and legal citations produced by the AI tool before filing. Justice C. Shannon Bacon questioned why Aarons appeared unaware of the well-documented risks of AI hallucinations during an August hearing.

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