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The attorney for Lindsey Whiteside, a former youth minister with Getwell Church in Hernando, Mississippi, has pushed back against an effort to resentence his client on allegations that she produced two fraudulent letters of support to reduce her punishment after pleading guilty to child sexual abuse.

Whiteside's attorney, Tony Farese, dismissed the allegation as false, according to a report Wednesday from local news outlet WMC .

Earlier this month, Desoto County District Attorney Matthew Barton called for Whiteside's resentencing after alleging that two of the 49 letters of support she submitted to mitigate her sentence were coerced.

In the court filing pushing for Whiteside's resentencing cited by Fox 13 , Barton's office argued that Whiteside "even moved the Court to s

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