A Georgia prosecutor, Deborah Leslie, used an AI tool (believed to be ChatGPT or a similar generative AI) to research case citations for a murder trial in Clayton County, Georgia. The AI generated several legal citations that appeared legitimate but were entirely fabricated - citing cases that do not exist or do not support the legal proposition for which they were cited. The Georgia Supreme Court disciplined Leslie, barring her from appearing before justices for six months. Justice Benjamin Land wrote in the ruling: 'Citing cases that do not exist or do not support the proposition for which they are cited is a violation of this Court's rules and falls far beneath the conduct we expect from Georgia lawyers.' This case is part of a growing trend of AI hallucinated legal citations, with LAINE AI reporting 724 such cases nationally in Q1 2026 alone - a 32-fold increase from Q1 2024.
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