Incident Tracker / United States (state)
Moses v. State
·Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee·US-STATEDismissalprovisional
Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee on 2026-02-25 in Moses v. State found the self-represented party's appellate brief contained one citation defect involving nonexistent authorities, incorrect statutory or rule text. The court dismissed claims or denied relief after identifying the defective authorities.
- Court
- Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
- Date
- 2026-02-25
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- The self-represented party's appellate brief contained one citation defect involving nonexistent authorities, incorrect statutory or rule text.
- Outcome
- Dismissal
- 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, “Moses v. State”, safelegalai.com/tracker/moses-v-state (accessed 2026-09-08). Data: CC BY 4.0.