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State v. Davis
·Ohio Court of Appeals, Seventh Appellate District·US-STATEWarningprovisional
The Ohio Seventh District affirms Jacob Davis’s speeding conviction. The opinion says Davis disclosed using generative AI for his nonconforming brief, and a cited Sanchez case does not discuss the indefinite-tolling proposition he raised, possibly reflecting an AI hallucination. Docket 25 CO 0050.
- Court
- Ohio Court of Appeals, Seventh Appellate District
- Date
- 2026-08-03
- Who used the AI
- Litigant in person
- AI tool
- Not identified in the record
- Conduct
- Self-represented appellant used AI and cited Sanchez for an indefinite-tolling proposition the opinion did not discuss.
- Outcome
- Warning
- 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, “State v. Davis”, safelegalai.com/tracker/state-v-davis (accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.