Here is a case of a woman who decided that, because she had a gun, she was going to chase down what she believed was a criminal and be a hero. The story goes like this:
She was a witness to a car accident, along with an off duty police officer, another witness. Hannah saw the accident and believed him to be intoxicated, according to her own statements on the phone to 911. (It actually turns out he was having a diabetic emergency) The man who caused the accident left the scene. Hannah called 911 and engaged in a vehicle pursuit.
The dispatcher, upon finding out Hannah was engaged in a vehicle pursuit, said “We actually don’t want you to chase him,” then asked her to return to the scene of the accident.
Hannah replied, “There is a police officer at the scene, but this guy is drunk, and I am not NOT going to follow him, because he is going to cause another accident.”
When she caught up to him, Hannah pulled her vehicle into the path of the man’s car, to block him from going further. She got out of her car to confront him, yelling for him to get out of the car. She is heard to say, “He was fighting with me, and he pulled the trigger on my gun.” The thing is, he was still in his pickup with his seatbelt on. She claims her finger was indexed and not on the trigger. You decide, here is a screen grab from the video:
In 2023, Hannah was convicted of felony murder, false imprisonment, and weapons charges, and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole, plus 8 years and 5 years. The story would end there, a wanna be cop with a gun who decided to shoot someone over a traffic accident she wasn’t even involved in, but there is more.
The Supreme Court of Georgia weighed in on her appeal just this spring. The prosecutor in the case had used AI to write her legal briefs and motions. The case law cited by the AI was fake, either made up cases, or the cases cited didn’t say what the lawyer claimed they did. So the Supreme Court of Georgia, as they should have, ordered the conviction tossed out, and granted Hannah a new trial.
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Kentucky Headhunter · September 16, 2026 at 5:54 am
What ‘case law’ was needed to convince a judge or jury that this woman’s actions were criminal and deserving of at least 30 years before parole became a possibility.
Divemedic · September 16, 2026 at 7:16 am
I’m sure there were pretrial motions made concerning evidence and testimony. There always are.
Joe Blow · September 16, 2026 at 6:10 am
#TheGreatEnshittening will accelerate!
It’s funny, b/c I just completed the mandatory AI training at my job. And at the end of every instructable, ‘now remember, YOU are ultimately responsible for the output, to verify the facts, and ensure the information is accurate’.
So, I’ve got a fancy-google now, is what you’re telling me? Got it.
Kids today literally can’t read (long-form reading comprehension) nor write, students everywhere, at every level, just slam it through AI. Companies are just slamming it through AI. When something breaks, it’s still your fault, but you get to blame it on AI.
When the economy collapses, they’ll blame it on AI (not the 80 years of sclerotic investment). When you step back and look at the amount of interita behind AI, you know we’re dealing with a serious force of something. You can judge it right/wrong/indifferent later, but at the very least, for ones own sake, recognize what is actually happening, not what you think should be.
Wild, wild west · September 16, 2026 at 7:29 am
Not just the kids. Neither Hannah’s defense attorney nor the judge noticed the prosecutor’s filings were poo until after the conviction. And, it’s a thousand wonders that incompetency was even noticed in the first place. All three of them should be scooping up poo at the dog pound for a living after this.
Now as to Hannah……..in prison, if not under it.
Don Curton · September 16, 2026 at 7:55 am
I’ve told this story elsewhere, but it bears repeating. Now, mind you, I’ve had several different doctors give me the whole “don’t confuse your 10 minutes of googling with my lifetime of medical practice and education” meme. So that’s the starting point.
My wife has some long term medical issues and I’m going to every appointment with her. I’m pushing each and every doctor to tell me what the root problem is rather than just treating symptoms, which isn’t working for shit. We are at yet another doctor and I’m pushing for answers. My wife is going over her symptoms and the doctor is click-clacking on her computer in the room. She has it angled so my wife can’t see the screen, but I’m standing up and can read it clearly. The frigging doc is typing the symptoms directly into ChatGPT as my wife is talking.
That’s the standard of medical care you’ll be getting very soon, if not already. Every profession is moving that way. Hell, you’d be better off using AI yourself rather than trusting some mid-grade professional to do it for you. This world is officially fucked.
Divemedic · September 16, 2026 at 9:39 am
There are good and bad people in every profession.
That exact tactic was what we were being taught when I was in PA school, which is why I left. That’s not the provider I wanted to be.
Slow Joe Crow · September 16, 2026 at 3:40 pm
Stupid all around. Hannah did all the things every instructor tells you not to and killed someone so she deserves what she gets. The prosecutor who used AI should be disbarred to send a serous message and the judge at the retrial should put every filing under a microscope
Jester · September 16, 2026 at 11:44 pm
I mean to be honest cops a few times a year do far more/worse than this, but digression aside the .gov types take a pretty dim view on Vigilante justice. I think you, DM have mentioned that the courts/cops have a major reason of their existance is to keep vigilante justice from being the order of the day.
The AI deal, while it was caught and AI can be a good assistant to research (Finding something but then you as the human go overify its authenticity) and we are all rolling our eyes about just think if your lawyer is doing the same thing, or if your faced off against the State for someone doing the same thing to you and you have a pubic defender who’s too lazy or stupid to be able to see any of this? Or a paid lawfirm?
This whole case stinks and what she did was wrong. You are not the cops, nor was your life in immidate danger. You don’t have the authority to engage in violence and are not a protected class as the cops generally are.
The long term concern is how much stuff AI is going to be doing for running court cases and how that can be damaging and dangerous.
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