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Ex parte Allen Michael Lee, No. 10-22-00281-CR (Tex. App.—Waco July 19, 2023) (published)
·Texas Court of Appeals, Tenth District (Waco)·US-STATEOther
In the Tenth Court of Appeals of Texas, Chief Justice Tom Gray held that appellant Lee's brief cited three published cases that do not exist, noted the Argument section may have been AI-prepared, and overruled the issue as inadequately briefed. The court imposed no penalty and expressly declined a show-cause order or State Bar referral.
- Court
- Texas Court of Appeals, Tenth District (Waco)
- Date
- 2023-07-19
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Appellant's counsel filed a habeas/bail-reduction appeal brief whose Argument section cited three published Texas Court of Criminal Appeals cases that do not exist; each citation was a jump-cite into an unrelated case, two of them from Missouri. The State flagged the citations and counsel never corrected them. The court observed the Argument section may have been prepared by AI.
- Outcome
- Other
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty recorded
- Regulatory outcome
- No separate regulatory disposition recorded
- Status
- Verified against listed sources
- Last checked
- 2026-09-04
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Ex parte Allen Michael Lee, No. 10-22-00281-CR (Tex. App.—Waco July 19, 2023) (published)”, safelegalai.com/tracker/ex-parte-lee (accessed 2026-09-05). Data: CC BY 4.0.