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Currently, there is nothing to prevent someone from being a repeat offender and insanity prevails.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 24 June 2024
Of the three arrests, one involved a repeat offender.
—David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2024
An accident is an unpreventable occurrence, not the logical and predictable conclusion of reckless driving by a repeat offender who chooses to drive at excessive speeds.
—Washington Post, 21 June 2024
Owner Joe Lacob said on The Athletic’s TK Show earlier this year that the club’s Plan A will be to dip under the luxury tax to avoid being a repeat offender.
—Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 19 June 2024
The bill would effectively nullify a 2023 state Supreme Court ruling holding that multiple convictions stemming from the same criminal complaint do not necessarily classify someone as a repeat offender.
—Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2024
Additionally, the league imposes a repeat offender penalty (an additional dollar-for-dollar tax over the payroll threshold) for those who paid a tax in three of the previous four seasons.
—Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
The law effectively nullifies a 2023 state Supreme Court ruling holding that multiple convictions stemming from the same criminal complaint do not necessarily classify someone as a repeat offender.
—Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2024
What was most shocking was the identity of one of the two suspects: a repeat offender freed from a maximum-security prison to fight in Ukraine.
—Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
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“Repeat offender.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/repeat%20offender. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
Legal Definition
repeat offender
noun
re·peat offender
: a person who has been convicted of a crime on more than one occasion
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