Archibald: Did Alabama’s pricey prison lawyers just use AI to file motions? The judge wants answers

This is an opinion column

First of all, it’s important to know that William Lunsford, a lawyer at Butler Snow’s office in Huntsville, is Alabama’s go-to guy for defending its prisons and their leaders.

The state has paid him $42 million for his expertise since 2020, according to state records, and is slated to pay him much more.

He’s an institution. Top dog, A-1, indispensable, they have said. Or, as one of the guys on Alabama’s Contract Review Committee put it a couple years ago,…