Maybe there’s a reason beyond the obvious that it’s “artificial intelligence.”
As no actual intelligence would fabricate cases, citations, and quotations and then submit them to a court, which is what happened in a case involving State Attorney Deborah Leslie.
She’s being handed a grievance with the State Bar in Georgia, suspension, performance plan development, loss of privileges and more, according to a report at RedState.
Further, the State Supreme Court has canceled a lower court’s decision that was based on the fiction.
Here is Justice Nels S.D. Peterson informing Leslie that the court documents she submitted included “five citations to cases that don’t exist.” And worse.
An absolutely excruciating moment at the Georgia Supreme Court this week.
Justice Peterson pressed state attorney Deborah Leslie over her citations to cases that apparently don’t exist. pic.twitter.com/D9Ww7sYvBF
— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) March 20, 2026
The report said it turned out Leslie used A.I. and admitted in another brief that the “errors” were not “intentional.”
Clayton County District Attorney Tasha Mosley ended up apologizing to the court and confirmed “strict disciplinary action” was being imposed.
The higher court also vacated a lower court’s order denying Hannah Payne’s request for a new murder trial, ordering the lower court to write its own decision.
In court cases, many times lawyers for both sides submit to a judge a proposed order that he or she could issue should their side be the victor. Many judges use them.
In this case, unwisely.
In Payne v. State, the Supreme Court of Georgia has suspended the prosecutor’s ability to practice before it for six months, admonished the District Attorney’s Office, and directed the trial court to write its own order. https://t.co/sQXdYBZc6u pic.twitter.com/2TR3BpEe8u
— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) May 5, 2026
The charges stem from a highly controversial set of circumstances in which Payne allegedly witnessed an accident, chased down a fleeing suspect, blocked his vehicle, and during a physical confrontation, the fleeing suispect was shot and killed.
The alleged victim in this case, Kenneth Herring, blew through a red light and slammed into a semi-trailer, hard enough to make it tilt. An off-duty officer who approached him noticed that he seemed impaired.
— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) March 20, 2026
Suspended for six months? The person should be disbarred and imprisoned. https://t.co/a4nHEX7xKm
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 5, 2026
