Lawyer fined $5K for AI-hallucinated witnesses in murder case

AI reliability failures carry real legal consequences authors must understand now.

This story ran in the Coral Wire edition of Sat, Sep 12 2026, when the Coral Index stood at 55/100 (Mixed signals).

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