Sherwood v. County of Botetourt, Virginia, et al.

Ficha del Equipo Editorial a partir de la base mundial AI Hallucination Cases de Damien Charlotin. Verifica siempre en la fuente original.

El 20 de mayo de 2026, W.D. Virginia (Estados Unidos) conoció un asunto en el que un abogado se apoyó en una herramienta de IA generativa (no identificada en la decisión) y el expediente registró contenido alucinado.

Qué se alucinó

• Fabricación de jurisprudencia. Plaintiffs repeatedly cited a non-existent opinion 'Peal v. Commonwealth' as supporting a foundational probable-cause requirement; court found the case does not exist.
• Fabricación de jurisprudencia. Plaintiffs cited 'Ford v. City of Alexandria, 37 Va. App. 819 (2002)', which the court determined is not an existing opinion cited in that form.
• Fabricación de jurisprudencia. Plaintiffs relied on 'Lafayette v. Commonwealth, 30 Va. App. 454 (1999)'; court determined the cited authority does not exist.
• Tergiversación de norma legal. Plaintiffs misquoted Virginia Code § 19.2-72 to assert a categorical requirement of a sworn, written probable-cause affidavit for misdemeanor warrants; court corrected that the statute does not impose that written-affidavit requirement when the complainant is a law-enforcement officer.
• Tergiversación de jurisprudencia. Plaintiffs quoted McCary v. Commonwealth for the proposition that 'Probable cause must appear within the four corners of the written affidavit or recorded testimony presented to the magistrate,' but the court found McCary does not contain that language and was misused.
• Tergiversación de jurisprudencia. Plaintiffs cited 'Anderson v. Commonwealth, 38 Va. App. 321 (2002), aff'd, 279 Va. 85 (2010)' for a legal proposition about in-camera review; court found the citation/misattribution was incorrect and the cited authority did not support the proposition.
• Fabricación de jurisprudencia. Complaint cited 'Walker v. Bowen, 372 F. Supp. 2d 541 (W.D. Va. 2005)' as precedent; court found no such authority.

Desenlace

Sanción profesional: No.

Ficha del caso

Fuentes: aporte de /documents/2161/Sherwood_v_Botetourt.pdf; base de datos de Damien Charlotin.

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