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habitual criminal

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Main Entry: habitual criminal
Function: noun
: one convicted of a crime who has a certain number of prior convictions for offenses of a specified kind (as felonies) and is thereby under some statutes subject to an increased penalty (as life imprisonment)
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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