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Jesse Andre v. Warden, FCI Danbury

Court
D. Connecticut
Jurisdiction
USA
Decided
2025-11-25
AI tool
Unidentified
Outcome
Admonishment; Motion stricken with prejudice
Monetary penalty
None reported

What was hallucinated

Fabricated: Case Law | Court found 'Harriot v. Jamison' (cited to support BOP-policy arguments) does not exist. || False Quotes: Case Law | Quoted language attributed to Levine v. Apker does not appear in that opinion and the case does not support the asserted proposition. || False Quotes: Case Law | Sierra quotation cited in the Motion was fabricated and does not exist in the Sierra opinion. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Woodley v. Warden was cited as supporting a 'detainer-only bar' proposition the court found the case does not establish. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Perttu v. Richards was mischaracterized in substance and procedural posture relative to the petitioner's arguments. || Misrepresented: Legal Norm | Federal procedural rules (e.g., Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a) and Habeas Rule 7) were mischaracterized as authorizing a petitioner to unilaterally expand the record after judgment. || Misrepresented: Case Law | Rivers v. Guerrero and Mayle v. Felix were cited for relation-back/record-expansion propositions the Court found they do not support.

Sanction teardown · D. Connecticut, USA · 2025-11-25

Jesse Andre v. Warden, FCI Danbury

What happened

In D. Connecticut, USA, a filing relied on an unnamed/unconfirmed AI tool to help draft legal argument. The court identified the following problems with the citations in that filing:

  • Fabricated (Case Law)
    Court found 'Harriot v. Jamison' (cited to support BOP-policy arguments) does not exist.
  • False Quotes (Case Law)
    Quoted language attributed to Levine v. Apker does not appear in that opinion and the case does not support the asserted proposition.
  • False Quotes (Case Law)
    Sierra quotation cited in the Motion was fabricated and does not exist in the Sierra opinion.
  • Misrepresented (Case Law)
    Woodley v. Warden was cited as supporting a 'detainer-only bar' proposition the court found the case does not establish.
  • Misrepresented (Case Law)
    Perttu v. Richards was mischaracterized in substance and procedural posture relative to the petitioner's arguments.
  • Misrepresented (Legal Norm)
    Federal procedural rules (e.g., Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a) and Habeas Rule 7) were mischaracterized as authorizing a petitioner to unilaterally expand the record after judgment.
  • Misrepresented (Case Law)
    Rivers v. Guerrero and Mayle v. Felix were cited for relation-back/record-expansion propositions the Court found they do not support.

Which AI tool

an unnamed/unconfirmed AI tool. Note: Charlotin's public database records tool attribution only where a court order, brief, or reporting on the matter states it explicitly; "unidentified" or "implied" means the record indicates AI use but does not name a specific product — we do not guess.

Outcome

Admonishment; Motion stricken with prejudice

How Citation Safe would have caught this

Citation Safe runs three deterministic layers before a brief is filed: (1) does the citation exist against CourtListener's database of published opinions, (2) if quoted, does that exact language appear in the source, (3) does the cited case actually support the proposition it is cited for. Fabricated case citations fail Layer 1. Fabricated or misattributed quotations fail Layer 2 even when the underlying case is real. Misrepresented holdings — a real case cited for a proposition it does not support — are the target of Layer 3. None of these checks involve asking another language model whether the citation looks right; they are lookups and text-matches against the actual source, which is why a hallucinated citation has to survive a direct lookup against the authoritative source — not another model's opinion — to earn a VERIFIED stamp; our measured false-verify rate is published live at /quality.

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Source: https://www.damiencharlotin.com/documents/1095/Andre_v._Warden_USA_25_November_2025.pdf, via Damien Charlotin's public AI Hallucination Cases Database (CC0).

Source: https://www.damiencharlotin.com/documents/1095/Andre_v._Warden_USA_25_November_2025.pdf

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