LAW FIRM PAID MILLIONS TO DEFEND INMATE FACES SANCTIONS FOR USING FAKE CASE LAW PRODUCED BY AI

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Well Ai continues to get in the news, but none
the way you wanted to less than a year and
a half. Frankie Johnson, a man incocerated at the William E.
Donaldson Prison outside Birmenham, says he was stabbed around twenty times.
In December of twenty nineteen. Johnson says he was stabbed
at least nine times in his housing unit. In March
of twenty twenty, an officer handcuffed him to a desk

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follow in a group therapy meeting and left the unit,
which another prisoner came in and stabbed him five times.
In November of the same year, Johnson says he was
handcuffed by an officer and brought to the prison room
with another prisoner attacked him five to six times, stabbing him.
According to Johnson, one of the attackers officers had actually
encouraged his attacker, and Johnson filed a lawsuit against Alabama

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prison officials for failing to keep keep them safe, rampant violence,
and understaffing. To defend the case, the Alabama Attorney General's
office turned to a law firm that for years has
been paid millions of dollars by the state to defend
its trouble systems. It's called Butler Snow. State officials have
even praised Butler Snow for its experience in defending prison cases,
and specifically William LUNs were at head of the constitutional

(02:20):
civil rights litigation practice. But now that firm is facing
sanctions by the federal judge overseeing Johnson's case after an
attorney at the firm working with lunch for excited cases
generated by AI and the cases didn't even exist. It
is a growing number of instances in which attorneys around
the country have faced consequences for including false AI generated

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information and official legal filings I mean database attempting to
tract the prevalence of the cases identified over one hundred
and six instances around the globe in which courts have
found AI hallucinations in court. Last year, an attorney was
suspended for one year from practicing law in the Federal
Middle District of Florida committee after a committee found he

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had cited fabricated AI generated cases in California. Earlier in
the month of federal judge order affirmed to pay more
than thirty thousand legal fees after it included false AI research.
At the hearing in Birmingham on Wednesday in Jarhadson's case,
the US district judge said that she was considering a
wide range of sanctions, including fines, mandated continuing education, referrals

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to licensing organizations, and suspensions against Butler Snow after the
attorney Matthew Reeves used CHATCHPT to add false citations to
filings relating to ongoing deposition and discovery disputes. She suggested
that so far the disciplinary actions have been meeted out
around the country have not gone far enough. The current
case is proof positive that those sanctions were insufficient. She says,

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Reeves to attempted to take full responsibility. I was aware
of the limitations on the use of AI, I did
not comply with policy. Attorneys with Butler Snow were appointed
by the Alabama Attorney's Office. Lasford, who holds the concent
with the state for the case, said that he had
been conducting a review of prior filings to make sure
that there were no more instances of false citations. So

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crazy story there in regards to how this is being
used in our legal system, and that's where the sad
thing is. There's a lot of stuff going on here
that shouldn't be happening. In addition to the Johnson case,
Lunceford and Butler Snow of contracts to work on several
civil rights cases against the Alabama Department of Corrections, including
one brought up under the Department of Justice under Trump.

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The contract for that case, a loan, is worth nearly
fifteen million dollars over two years. At one point. Some
law makers in all Alabama have questioned the amount of
the state of spending on the firm to defend the cases,
but it doesn't appeal with the mistake this week has
shaken the Attorney General's confidence in the Butler Snow firm.