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Iowa · state appellate court · 2026

Cecilia Sherwin and Joseph Sherwin v. State of Iowa, Department of Criminal Investigation and Jackson County Sheriff's Office

Court of Appeals of Iowa, 22 July 2026. What the court wrote about citations that did not exist, in its own words, from the document on file.

Case record · Iowa Ct. App.

  1. Court. Court of Appeals of IowaCOURT
  2. Level. state appellate courtLEVEL
  3. Date. 22 July 2026DATED
  4. Docket. No. 25-0992DOCKET
  5. Documents. one document, 1 passage quoted belowON FILE
  6. Source. CourtListenerSOURCE

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Published opinion, 22 July 2026 · source · PDF · 8 pages

But nothing about the State’s citation to Benskin in its trial brief breached that duty. Even if the citation form was incomplete, the case was neither hallucinated nor “suspicious.” What’s more, the State cited the case for the familiar proposition that “[m]otions to dismiss are disfavored.” Benskin, 952 N.W.2d at 296. Thus, the district court did not act with prejudice by refusing to require the defendants to disclose any use of artificial intelligence.

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