Las Vegas — District Judge Monica Trujillo sanctioned defense attorney Dean Kajioka $500, payable to the Clark County Library, after finding that artificial intelligence was misused in a filing related to the bombing of Piero’s Italian Cuisine.
Kajioka filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus on June 22 on behalf of his client, Robert Schwieger, 53, who was arrested in April and faces charges of conspiracy to commit first‑degree arson, first‑degree arson, and using explosives to damage, destroy, or conspire to harm or destroy property. Schwieger is one of several defendants accused of the tube bombing that damaged only the entrance of the restaurant.
Prosecutors opposed the petition in a July 7 filing, and Kajioka subsequently submitted a reply that prosecutors said differed markedly in style, formatting, and citation from his original petition. They noted a hallucinated citation to a non‑existent case: “Evans v. State, 123 Nev. 117, 159 P.3d 438 (2007).” Kajioka initially described the error as a typo, insisting the correct reference was “944 P.2d 253 (1997).” The judge struck the filing and imposed the $500 sanction.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Eckley Keach criticized the misuse of AI in court, stating: “Unguarded usage of AI is an existential menace to the signifier of instrumentality and the just medication of justice,” said Chief Deputy District Attorney Eckley Keach in tribunal Wednesday. “AI volition ne'er recognize the quality outgo of a transgression case, not to a defendant, not to the victims of crime. And erstwhile a defence lawyer oregon immoderate lawyer relinquishes their duties to the machine, it’s opposing counsel and the tribunal that carnivore that cost, due to the fact that the plan of AI volition nutrient enactment merchandise that superficially looks correct, but erstwhile you scratch past the surface, it misses the nuances of existent law.”
He added: “There’s nary mode that Mr. Kajioka submitted a 70-page statement 2 days aft the authorities filed its instrumentality in a style, in a syntax, in a citation format that is wholly alien to the full assemblage of Mr. Kajioka’s assemblage of ineligible enactment going backmost arsenic acold arsenic erstwhile I started in this office,” he said.
Kajioka objected to the allegations, declaring: “I find it highly violative and professionally questionable that my integrity is astat question here,” he said. “I’ve been practicing implicit 30 years in this court, as good as the aged courthouse crossed the street, without question, without immoderate quality as to my credibility.”
He maintained the citation mistake was not intentional, but later acknowledged: “After further inquiry, seemingly AI was utilized to assistance in drafting,” he said.
Kajioka previously told
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