DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: A look at this day in CNN's history.</s>SUSAN ROOK, CNN ANCHOR: Mafia boss John Gotti was ordered to pay for his life of crime by spending the rest of his life in prison. As CNN's Charles Feldman reports, Gotti's sentence triggered a melee outside the courthouse in New York.</s>CHARLES FELDMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): More than 1,000 people claiming to be supporters of John Gotti demonstrated in front of the federal court house, some trying to stormed the building. The Mafia godfather was sentenced to life without parole.</s>FELDMAN: He was a real charmer, and I think that was the reason why the public was so fascinated by him because you have to come to terms with the fact that here was this guy, who was almost a Hollywood version of a Mafia don and looked like the kind of guy that you might want to even get to know. There was this conventional wisdom that no jury would ever convict him. And it turned out later that it wasn't until the federal government made a case against him that the charges stuck. And that was the trial that sent him to prison for life. But the interesting sort of epilogue to the whole thing is that, years later, he still, according to law enforcement officials, runs his mob family.
CNN 20: John Gotti Sentenced, June 23, 1992