career criminal
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Not everybody has the resilience—or luck—to survive like Lily Dillon, the career criminal in “The Grifters” and one of Thompson’s fiercest characters.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
That is a little like complimenting a career criminal for pleading guilty instead of insisting on a jury trial.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2024
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
“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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