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Special prosecutor sought in case against Drew Peterson’s ex-lawyer – Shaw Local

September 20th, 2024Hisyu0 Comments

Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow is seeking a special prosecutor to handle a case where former Bolingbrook police Sgt. Drew Peterson’s past attorney is accused of violating a 2022 gag order. On Monday, Glasgow filed a motion for a special prosecutor in the indirect contempt of court case filed last Friday against Joel Brodsky, a former attorney for Peterson. The motion is scheduled for a hearing on Wednesday before Will County Chief Judge Dan Kennedy. Glasgow’s motion said he wants to recover his office from the case because Brodsky was Peterson’s defense attorney, who is “currently in a post-conviction…

B.C. lawyer reprimanded for citing fake cases invented by ChatGPT

September 15th, 2024Hisyu0 Comments

The cases would have provided compelling precedent for a divorced dad to take his children to China — had they been real. But instead of savouring courtroom victory, the Vancouver lawyer for a millionaire embroiled in an acrimonious split has been told to personally compensate her client’s ex-wife’s lawyers for the time it took them to learn the cases she hoped to cite were conjured up by ChatGPT. In a decision released Monday, a B.C. Supreme Court judge reprimanded lawyer Chong Ke for including two AI “hallucinations” in an application filed last December. The cases never made it into Ke’s…