Mr. Fink, according to Mr. Goldstein's brief, was "a heroin addict and career felon" with "an uncanny knack for extracting confessions from cellmates".
The other was a career felon facing a long prison term who was told that a pending arson charge would be dismissed if he performed "well" while testifying against Mr. Banks.
Mr. Davis, 36, testified on his own behalf last week, telling jurors he did not know that Richie Sabol, a career felon, was being used by United States Customs Service agents to crack a fencing operation run by members of the Lucchese family.
Among their ranks, Mr. Koerner says, were "frazzled veterans, chronic fabulists, compulsive gamblers, bankrupt businessmen, thwarted academics, career felons and even lovesick teens".
A book you should read anywhere but on a plane: "The Skies Belong To Us," by Brendan I. Koerner, in which I learned that in 1972 a hundred and fifty-nine commercial flights where hijacked in the United States, by "frazzled veterans, chronic fabulists, compulsive gamblers, bankrupt businessmen, thwarted academics, career felons, and even lovesick teens".
Will you agree that reasonable regulations that keep weapons out of the hands of the mentally ill or career felons might be good for all of us?
As Stark, he's pushed his more serious felon, career criminal Parker, into out-intimidating organized crime ("The Hunter" and "The Outfit"), taking over an entire town ("The Score") and knocking over an assortment of difficult targets, from a floating casino ("Backflash") to the heavily guarded donation box of an evangelist's Christian crusade ("Comeback").
The label "career criminal" or "violent felon" mischaracterizes the 3,433 inmates eligible for release under Sections 104 and 105, the bill's supporters said.
Right now we've created these villain-like figures: felon, violent offender, career offender, career criminal.
New York State's expanded collection of DNA evidence from felons was credited yesterday with helping to catch a career criminal in the brazen rape of a television producer in Midtown Manhattan two years ago.
Now 83 and living in the Bronx, Mr. Biaggi said last week that, in the aftermath of a high-energy career battling felons and then being branded one, "I am a very tranquil man".
