BY JOE MAHONEY and TRACY CONNOR, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Child-killer Joel Steinberg, one of the nation's most despised criminals, will walk free from prison today and resume his life in New York.
Under the terms of his parole, the 63-year-old disbarred lawyer must live and work in the metropolitan area, but experts said he may find freedom as difficult as doing hard time.
"He is a truly hated figure, and he is going to run into significant obstacles," said Robert Gangi, executive director of the Correctional Association of New York, an inmate advocacy group.
The coke-snorting control freak battered his girlfriend, Hedda Nussbaum, beyond recognition and beat to death his 6-year-old adopted daughter, Lisa.
Steinberg spent nearly 17 years behind bars for manslaughter - still one of the most notorious crimes in the city's history.
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