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According to statistics compiled by the Los Angeles Daily News and released in May, 46 percent of convicted sex offenders in California, including 20 percent of convicted rapists, are sentenced either to probation or to terms of less than a year in county jails. The average prison term for the other 54 percent of sex offenders is three and a half years.
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Actress Judy Geeson was playing a chain-smoking woman with great vigor in the play Faith Healer at a New Haven, Connecticut, theater in April when a man in the audience stood up and said, “This is disgraceful. You’re going to kill yourself with the amount you smoke.” He walked out, yelling that anyway smoking was prohibited in the theater.
John Luckett, 70, collapsed and died of a heart attack after too vigorously heckling gun-control activist Sarah Brady during an April speech in Middletown, Ohio.
