FARGO — Attorneys for a Tennessee woman who was wrongly accused and jailed for months based on artificial intelligence evidence are working to file a civil rights lawsuit on her behalf. Despite a slow-going investigative process, the attorney for Angela Lipps said information gathered so far indicates the case "should strike fear in every law-abiding citizen" about the real-world implications of law enforcement's use of facial recognition technology. ADVERTISEMENT The story of Lipps' arrest last July in her rural hometown in the foothills of Appalachia in east Tennessee, and subsequent months-long incarceration after Fargo police relied on AI to identify her as the suspect in a bank fraud case, spread like wildfire after it was first reported by WDAY News last month. The New York Times, CNN and People Magazine covered the case. International outlets breathlessly reported the most egregious details, including that Lipps had never been on an airplane until she was extradited to North Dakota based on Fargo's arrest warrant, and that she was released from the Cass County Jail into frigid weather on Christmas Eve without a coat or money, and local defense attorneys had to cobble together donated personal funds to help her get back home. The case against Lipps Lipps' saga began after Fargo police started investigating a series of crimes at banks around Fargo and West Fargo that took place in late April and early May of last year. Court documents show investigators were attempting to locate two female suspects who presented fake military ID cards at seven different banks and credit unions to withdraw money from home equity line of credit accounts, resulting in a total loss of more than $67,000. By early June, Fargo detectives had honed in on Lipps as a prime suspect in their case, based, it is now known,