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Man speaks to killer from beyond the grave in Arizona courtroom through AI video (www.independent.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 190 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Why would a judge allow this? It's like showing the jury a made-for-TV movie based on the trial they're hearing.

[–] [email protected] 151 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Not only did he allow it,

While the state asked for a nine-and-a-half year sentence, the judge handed Horcasitas a 10-and-a-half year sentence after being so moved by the video, Pelkey’s family said, noting the judge even referred to the video in his statement.

It has about as much evidentiary value as a ouija board, but since the victim was a veteran and involved with a church and the judge likes those things we can ignore pesky little things like standards of proof and prejudice

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seems like grounds for a mistrial...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

On the other hand I do like that some road rage dipshit got a long sentence

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Arizona State professor of law Gary Marchant said the use of AI has become more common in courts.

“If you look at the facts of this case, I would say that the value of it overweighed the prejudicial effect, but if you look at other cases, you could imagine where they would be very prejudicial,” he told AZFamily.

Could you imagine how prejudicial such a thing might be? Not here, of course. /S

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Fucking yikes that judge needs to be removed

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Twist: the judge used AI to write his sentencing statement. It's chat bots all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A horror story in two sentences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Dont listen to him, he's an AI bot. Listen to me instead.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago

I'll take ten AI simps over one MAGA ally judge.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago

Jury duty would be a lot more fun if trials were narrated by the Unsolved Mysteries guy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The trial was already over. This was for the sentencing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

So the original comment is just dumb because they couldn't be bothered to read the article, but upvotes it gets.