DESOTO COUNTY, Miss. - The DeSoto County District Attorney's Office has filed a motion for a former youth pastor convicted of sex crimes against a child to be re-sentenced after two people who wrote letters supporting the defendant said those letters were coerced.

District Attorney Matthew Barton's office filed the motion on Friday, their second calling for the re-sentencing of Lindsey Whiteside, a former youth pastor who plead guilty to sexual battery against a 17-year-old who was part of her church's youth group.

In the motion, the DA's office said Whiteside submitted 49 letters of support with the court in effort to mitigate her sentence, and "even moved the Court to seal the letters from the public in order to solicit ever more supporters to write on her behalf," the filing read.

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