"Federal prosecutors seek 18-year sentence for career criminal" by Travis Andersen | Globe Staff, January 11, 2014
Federal prosecutors want a career criminal from Dorchester to spend just over 18 years in prison for his conviction on a gun charge, citing his lengthy, violent record that includes several armed robberies and attacks.
In a court filing Friday, prosecutors recommended a 220-month sentence for Samuel O. Dixon, 46, writing that he “long ago committed himself to a lifetime of crime, mostly violent, and that previous terms of imprisonment have done nothing to alter his commitment to his craft.”
Too bad he wasn't a government. They get away with that stuff all the time.
His public defender, Christopher Skinner, said he will request a 15-year term.
Dixon was convicted in US District Court in Boston in September of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, stemming from his arrest in February 2011 after police found a loaded .380-caliber pistol in his apartment, along with narcotics and a digital scale, court records show. Boston police searched his residence after he allegedly sold heroin three times to an informant, prosecutors said. However, a drug charge was later dropped.
In Friday’s filing, authorities laid out Dixon’s extensive criminal history, which they said has spanned 27 years….
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