career criminal
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While her portrayal of Dailey is agonizing, Ms. Colloff’s rendering of Paul Skalnik, a career criminal and the other man at the center of the book, is chilling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
By its very nature the justice system is glacial, methodical, punctilious, and backward-looking in ways that make keeping up with the well-resourced, wealthy career criminal supremely challenging.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2024
He described McSweeney as a "career criminal" who had been in and out of jail since the age of 16 and said that he "should have been considered a high-risk-of-serious-harm offender".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2023
Hanson also is serving a life sentence for several federal convictions, including being a career criminal, that predate his state death sentence.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
The district attorney’s office asked that he not be freed because he is a career criminal and a danger to the community.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
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