A federal appeals court today ordered that a former Alabama district attorney will have to register as a sex offender when he is released from prison next month.
Former Franklin County District Attorney John Pilati was sentenced in March 2008 to serve 42 months in prison for fondling five men -- ages 17 to 20 years old -- during searches while he was serving as prosecutor in that northwest Alabama county. He was convicted on five misdemeanor civil rights counts.
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