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	Stallworth to Stay on Sex Offender Registry State High Court Upholds Ruling WAPT May 22, 2008 http://www.wapt.com/news/16366111/detail.html JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled 5-3 Thursday to keep the Rev. Jeffery Stallworth's name on the state's sex offender registry. Thursday's ruling upholds the decision handed down by Judge Bobby Delaughter of Hinds County Circuit Court. Stallworth's attorneys had argued that his misdemeanor fourth degree sex conviction and sentence were removed by a judge in Maryland and the crime he pleaded guilty to in Maryland would not require a person to register as a sex offender in Mississippi. Stallworth was serving as the pastor of Anderson United Methodist Church when he pleaded guilty in 2002 to the charge of sexually assaulting a woman during a 2001 stay at her home in Maryland. Stallworth originally contended it was a consensual encounter between two adults but later changed his plea to guilty to fourth degree sexual assault. DeLaughter ruled in 2006 that while a misdemeanor did not require registration as a sex offender in Maryland, upon return to Mississippi, Stallworth was required to register as a sex offender. Sex offenders are required to register with the local Sheriff's department and have special identification card issued by the Mississippi Highway Patrol. The Supreme Court upheld DeLaughter's ruling on the case.
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