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Higgins v. State
·Texas Court of Appeals, Twelfth District·US-STATENoted, no consequenceprovisional
The Texas Twelfth Court of Appeals affirms Kevin Higgins’s conviction. The opinion recounts defense counsel’s admission that an AI-produced evidentiary memorandum misstated case holdings because counsel did not read the cited cases, but holds Higgins did not establish Strickland prejudice.
- Court
- Texas Court of Appeals, Twelfth District
- Date
- 2026-07-31
- Who used the AI
- Lawyer
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Defense counsel filed an AI-produced memorandum misstating several case holdings and admitted he had not read the cited cases.
- Outcome
- Noted, no consequence
- Penalty
- No monetary penalty recorded
- Regulatory outcome
- No separate regulatory disposition recorded
- Status
- Provisional — written by the court-decisions pipeline, awaiting the editor
- Last checked
- 2026-09-07
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SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “Higgins v. State”, safelegalai.com/tracker/higgins-v-state (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.