Miami-Dade Public Defender Carlos Martinez is a remote technology early adopter turned AI trailblazer.

Six months ago, his front-line defenders, most of them in the felony division, began using the Casetext legal assistant “CoCounsel.” The advanced large-language model, CoCounsel is based on ChatGPT4.

“We’ve been told by Casetext that we are the first public defender’s office in the country to be using artificial intelligence for research and for case preparation,” said Cindy Guerra, chief deputy public defender of operations.