LAWYER FINED $5K FOR AI-FABRICATED WITNESSES
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New Mexico's Supreme Court fined attorney Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for submitting an appeal brief containing AI-hallucinated witnesses and fake police testimony in a murder case.
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