career criminal
Americannoun
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career criminals
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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
The use of Thug’s lyrics to portray him as a career criminal is a frequent tactic for prosecutors, said Dina LaPolt, a music industry attorney and member of the advocacy group Black Music Action Coalition.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2022
“We’re delighted the Supreme Court agrees that Mr. Wooden is not an armed career criminal and never should have been subject to a fifteen-year mandatory-minimum sentence,” Wooden’s attorney Allon Kedem wrote in an email.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2022
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