Courts are fining attorneys thousands of dollars for submitting legal documents with fake case citations and errors generated by AI tools they failed to verify before filing.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal has held that a trial judge erred in denying the suppression motion of a defendant who was handcuffed after being ordered to come out of a home in which he was spotted through an open front door, rejecting the assertion that the officers did not need a warrant because they did not step foot inside the residence.

(Subscription required) From voir dire to sentencing, Judge Alison Matsumoto describes the unpredictability of jury trials, the evolution of criminal law and the responsibility of making high-stakes decisions from the bench. 

(Subscription required) Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl ordered Matthew Bergman, of the Social Media Victims Law Center, to pay $1,100 as a sanction for taking a selfie and conducting a Zoom interview with BBC from inside the courthouse.