To achieve this, the judge is provided sentencing guidelines that take mitigating circumstances into consideration.
"He knows he has let everyone down including himself but there are mitigating circumstances, " he said.
They're supposed to balance that against his mitigating factor which is that Moussaoui may be nuts.
At least one juror found that 11 of the mitigating factors were proved, Adams said.
Mark Shelley, mitigating on behalf of Hall, said his client had autism and very low IQ.
Moreover, the goals of reducing pollution and mitigating the effects of climate change sometimes conflict.
At first, most growers were in denial, pointing to various mitigating factors such as storage.
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David Evans, mitigating, said Hirst had been struggling to cope with his duties as a carer.
Now, that's not the same as saying there were no mitigating circumstances because there were.
Christopher Knox, mitigating, said King's probation officer stated that the defendant became blinded by love.
But Mr Galmon says that, when it comes to slavery, there are no mitigating circumstances.
That includes everything from processing checks and opening new accounts to mitigating fraud and evaluating loan applications.
He often said that monetary policy can only "buy time" by mitigating the pains in the reform.
Without these mitigating factors, people in depressed areas could easily be trapped in a cycle of stagnation.
Investors with an eye on mitigating roller coaster rides might look to their pantry for some stock ideas.
Modern industrial societies have proved that--with willpower, innovation and capital--they are good at mitigating local and regional pollution.
The principal mitigating factor is that year-over-year increases lately have been from year-ago levels that were significantly negative.
Maybe the world continues its trend of becoming less energy intensive, mitigating demand and alleviating supply pressure .
However, some potential risks such as self-cannibalization and sluggish economy can have a mitigating effect on its growth.
Traditional responses to the risk of extreme events are of limited value in mitigating risks of a mega-catastrophe.
One of the factors mitigating this growth is the advent of storage of digital content in the cloud.
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John Smethurst, mitigating, said Cook had "delusions of being bigger than he is".
What Sarbanes-Oxley does do is make us evaluate risk and develop mitigating controls.
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William Clegg QC, mitigating, said his client had no previous convictions for violence.
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"If they put forward constructive proposals on mitigating the effect on our members then we'll constructively engage, " he said.
This has led to business people making decisions biased more towards mitigating tax than would normally be the case.
There's some mitigating circumstances here and so we gave it a barely true.
Kingston has suggested that the amendment is a step towards showing that Congress is serious about mitigating wasteful spending.
Gavin Holme, mitigating, described Dickinson as a "well-thought-of individual whose vanity took hold".
"Things which might be considered mitigating factors are not for me, " he said.
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