Man who was voice of Charlie Brown sent to drug facility for stalking
Source: Reuters
The former child actor who was the voice of Charlie Brown in the 1960s "Peanuts" animated television specials was sentenced to a year in jail on Wednesday and immediately ordered to a residential drug treatment center by a California judge who told him: "Don't be a blockhead."
Peter Robbins, 56, who choked up while reading a letter of apology to the court, had pleaded guilty last month to two felony counts of stalking and making criminal threats against his girlfriend, Shawna Kern, and a plastic surgeon who had performed her breast implant surgery.
Although he was sentenced to a year in jail, he was given credit for time served and ordered to spend the next eight months in a drug treatment facility. He will then serve five years of probation.
"I realize this is the first step towards becoming the fun-loving, respectful person I was and hope to be again," Robbins said in his apology. "I love Shawna and wish her my best."
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/09/entertainment-us-usa-charliebrown-probat-idUSBRE94803520130509
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I figure this had more to do with the current trend to find other recourses than incarceration. In line with the overcrowding situation in CA prisons.
