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	Judge Delays Ruling on Pastor Being Listed on Offender Registry By Jimmie E. Gates jgates@clarionledger.com Clarion-Ledger May 12, 2006 http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060512/NEWS/60512013 Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter delayed a decision today on whether the Rev. Jeffery Stallworth's name should be removed from the state sex offender registry. Stallworth, pastor of Word and Worship church in Jackson, contends he should not be on the registry because his misdemeanor fourth-degree sex conviction and sentence were removed by a judge and the crime he pleaded guilty to in Maryland would not require a person to register as a sex offender in Mississippi. But Assistant Attorney General Harold Pizzetta III said Stallworth's guilty plea in the case requires his name be on the sex offender registry. "It's an important matter and one of first impression," DeLaughter said. "I'm not going to shoot from the hip...I have a lot of thoughts running through my mind on it."
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