Law students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law last month held a mock trial to see how AI models administer justice.

The fictional case focuses on Henry Justus, identified as a 17-year-old Black student accused of robbery at a high school where Black students account for 10 percent of the population.

It's based on a real juvenile case that occurred in North Carolina, where the judge found the defendant guilty.

The real case – handled by UNC-Chapel Hill law professor Joseph Kennedy while working with Carolina Law's Juvenile Justice Clinic – was chosen as a template because there's no online record of it that the AI models might have encountered during training.

Kennedy served as a judge in the mock trial , which was set in the year 2036 following the "2035

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