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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: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday May 01 2015, @10:40PM
The police force is... questionable in some places. The particular ways they are vary from place to place. The news makes it out to be this terrible shithole most of the time, but it's really not THAT bad. I used to live downtown and frequently took long walks at night without really any concern for my safety. Actually used to live about a mile from where this happened, per the link in the summary, and I've walked around in that area before. It's mostly businesses, with some nicer apartments here and there. Has its fair share of homeless sleeping in the streets/parks though, like just about any downtown area I've been to.
Like many cities, it has good and bad places, and those areas do a surprisingly good job of keeping to themselves. Ferguson was a low income location that was just beginning to start to get nice. Local businesses, a microbrewery, and the like. White flight is a genuine concern for the city though. Anecdotally, every time I hear about friends/coworkers moving, it's always further west. Likewise have a lot of other people I've asked about the matter.
Other than this and Ferguson, what have you heard of happening here lately? Only other thing I can think of that was violent that hit the news was a murder on Cherokee, but that was a couple years ago.
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