AFAIK BOP officers are considered law enforcement but with some limitations.

Suzanne lacked the requisite mens rea for a criminal conviction because she was too detached from reality to understand what was happening (she'd probably fit under the Modern Penal Code test for insanity, which applies in NY). Bayley may have been "enforcing the law" but he acted with reckless or grossly negligent…

Felony murder requires burglary, arson, robbery, rape or kidnapping, iirc. None of which were happening here.

Clarence Snopes is a corrupt politician from William Faulkner's Snopes trilogy.