Incident Tracker / United States (state)
State v. Alqahtani
·Court of Appeals of Ohio, Third District, Auglaize County·US-STATENoted, no consequenceprovisional
The Ohio Court of Appeals, Third District on 2026-04-13 affirmed the traffic conviction, assessed appellate costs, and noted that some of the appellant’s cited cases did not seem to exist in State of Ohio v. Abdullah M. Alqahtani. The self-represented appellant filed a submission with one fabricated case citation, one mischaracterized case citation, and one misstated legal rule.
- Court
- Court of Appeals of Ohio, Third District, Auglaize County
- Date
- 2026-04-13
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Alqahtani’s pro se appellate brief contained citations that vaguely supported his claims, were irrelevant, or, in at least one cited case, did not seem to exist; he also persisted in requesting a radar log that did not exist.
- 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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Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Global Legal AI Incident Tracker, “State v. Alqahtani”, safelegalai.com/tracker/state-of-ohio-v-abdullah-m-alqahtani (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.