2026.10.06 15:09

A man’s 10.5-year prison sentence for manslaughter was tossed out after AI was used at his sentencing hearing. The family of Christopher Pelkey gave several victim impact statements in court — but the one that stood out was a statement from Pelkey himself, even though he died in a roadrage incident in 2021. Pelkey’s sister wrote what she believed he would have said if he were alive and had an AI-generated version of him read it in court. But lawyers for Gabriel Paul Horcasitas, the man convicted in Pelkey’s killing, appealed his sentencing because of this AI video — and they won.

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