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Saturday, January 21, 2012

State wastes millions helping sex predators avoid lockup

Above: Lawyer Robert Naon, above center, hired psychologist Richard Wollert, right, to determine how likely child molester Jack Leck, left, was to commit another sexually violent act. Right: Psychologist Robert Halon waits to board a ferry bound for McNeil Island. At far right, Theodore Donaldson testifies for serial rapist Kevin Coe in Spokane. Halon and Donaldson were fired in 1996 from a contract with the state of California to conduct civil-commitment evaluations.