Ars Technica reports about a case in Missouri that may have been dropped to law enforcement's use of Stingray:
A woman accused of being a getaway driver in a series of robberies in St. Louis has changed her plea from guilty to not guilty after finding out that a stingray was used in her case.
Wilqueda Lillard was originally set to testify against her three other co-defendants, whose charges were also dropped earlier this month. As a result of changing her plea, the local prosecutor dropped the charges against her on Monday.
Terence Niehoff, Lillard’s attorney, explained to Ars that she pleaded guilty before learning about the use of the stingray. When her co-defendants’ attorneys challenged a police detective during a deposition, and that officer refused to provide further information, the case was eventually dropped.
However, Lauren Trager, the spokeswoman for the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office denied to Ars that the dropping was related:
I am unable to provide the information you requested. Despite the opinion of the defense attorney in this matter, the dismissal of the cases was not related in any way to any technology used in the investigation."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 01 2015, @10:32PM
The purpose of the summary is to inform the user what the story is about. That includes providing proper definitions of any uncommon or highly specific terms being used. In this case, Stingray is such a term. As such, a definition of it is required in the summary. If the summary is lacking that mandatory definition, then the summary is unequivocally a steaming pile of dogshit that should not make it on to the front page here.
(Score: 2) by tathra on Friday May 01 2015, @11:32PM
stingrays have been discussed here quite a few times [soylentnews.org] so we take it as a given that most of the community has heard of them by now. if you are one of the few people that still hasn't heard of them, sorry, but we have to assume that something that has been discussed so many times doesn't need to be defined yet again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2015, @03:01AM
Stingray is a common term for the tech literate. As such, a definition is not required. If the reader is lacking that mandatory literacy, then the reader is unequivocally ignorant and should not post anything about the subject at hand.