mitigating circumstances

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• mitigating circumstances — index extenuating circumstances Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 mitigating circumstances …   Law dictionary

• mitigating circumstances — phrase facts that help to explain a crime or mistake and make it seem less bad He did take the money, but there were mitigating circumstances. Thesaurus: reasons and excusessynonym Main entry: mitigating …   Useful english dictionary

• mitigating circumstances — ► LAW situations that are not an excuse for a crime, but that a court of law may consider to be important enough to reduce the blame or punishment of the accused person: »The judge said that there were no mitigating circumstances that would… …   Financial and business terms

• mitigating circumstances — Such as do not constitute a justification or excuse for the offense in question, but which, in fairness and mercy, may be considered as extenuating or reducing the degree of moral culpability. For example, mitigating circumstances which will… …   Black's law dictionary

• mitigating circumstances — Such as do not constitute a justification or excuse for the offense in question, but which, in fairness and mercy, may be considered as extenuating or reducing the degree of moral culpability. For example, mitigating circumstances which will… …   Black's law dictionary

• mitigating circumstances — facts that help to explain a crime or mistake and make it seem less bad He did take the money, but there were mitigating circumstances …   English dictionary

• mitigating circumstances — surrounding events which make a situation less severe …   English contemporary dictionary

• Mitigating evidence — is evidence that is provided (usually by the defendant in a criminal trial) in order to try to establish the presence of mitigating circumstances. The presence of mitigating circumstances can reduce the punishment imposed for the offense. The… …   Wikipedia

• mitigating circumstance — n: a circumstance in the commission of an act that lessens the degree of criminal culpability was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder because of mitigating circumstances; also: a circumstance or factor relating to an offense or defendant …   Law dictionary

• mitigating — adj. serving to reduce blame; of situations; as, mitigating factors; mitigating circumstances. Opposite of {aggravating}. [Narrower terms: {exculpatory}] Syn: extenuating. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• circumstances — I noun accompanying events, attendant conditions, bases, changes, conditions, controlling factors, course of events, details, events, factors, facts, features, full particulars, governing factors, grounds, happenings, incidentals, instances,… …   Law dictionary