NOUN
- (law) a circumstance that does not exonerate a person but which reduces the penalty associated with the offense
How To Use mitigating circumstance In A Sentence
- The judge found that in her case there were mitigating circumstances.
- If there turns out to be mitigating circumstances, they would come out in the court case.
- The way you committed this offence does have extraordinary mitigating circumstances attached to it.
- It all depends on whether the jury and the judges take the confession to be a mitigating circumstance, " said the vice-president of the court, Franz Cutka.
- The jury must take into account any mitigating circumstances presented by the defense, such as previous good character.
- Thanks to his age and other mitigating circumstances, he was only given a two year jail sentence.
- A mitigating circumstance is the fact that few library users restrict themselves to one source alone for obtaining books.
- There were mitigating circumstances for the error which I shall not go into here.
- Unless there are mitigating circumstances, that's as much as an athlete is permitted.
- Therefore, there are not mitigating circumstances to suggest that he has revealed other matters as a result of that meeting.
