CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland defense attorney is facing potential sanctions in two counties after submitting court filings containing fabricated legal citations and AI-generated content.

The documents, which appeared in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court and the 11 th Ohio District Court of Appeals, have drawn scrutiny from prosecutors and judges concerned about the ethical implications of artificial intelligence in legal practice.

William Norman admitted in a court record last week that a member of his practice used ChatGPT to draft a motion to reopen an appeal in the case of Malikhi Coleman, a man convicted of murder in Ashtabula County. The motion included quotes that did not exist in the trial transcript.

The appellate court, citing in a journal entry the “gravity of the violatio

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