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.
Now, that's not the same as saying there were no mitigating circumstances because there were.
But Mr Galmon says that, when it comes to slavery, there are no mitigating circumstances.
There's some mitigating circumstances here and so we gave it a barely true.
There were, though, mitigating circumstances he claimed - he's a politician who wanted the papers to help him win.
But the judges said there were no mitigating circumstances and the defendant did not appear to care about the consequences of her actions.
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Unless, that is, the state's governor, intervened on the grounds that mitigating circumstances argued against such a course of action.
Australia fly-half Quade Cooper was also cited for a dangerous tackle but was only handed a two-week ban because of "mitigating circumstances".
Mr Makin has revealed that Lord Woolf believes that "mitigating circumstances" mean Martin should be considered for release in eight years' time.
"If you're his lawyer you want to find out if there are any mitigating circumstances that might change the public view of him, " Dupree added.
Following the review, coding procedures were changed and implanting EPs now carefully document the indication for the ICD and include all relevant mitigating circumstances.
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In his defense, he has a long list of mitigating circumstances.
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To impose the death penalty, the jury had to decide unanimously that Yates was a future danger and that there were no mitigating circumstances against executing her.
The scholars were judging the action, not the actor, and there may be mitigating circumstances for the actor, i.e. he might be ignorant or compelled to do so.
It was an abject failure, but there are mitigating circumstances.
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There were some good balls, and conditions in this series have not been conducive to swatting the ball around, so there are one or two mitigating circumstances, but we should not be playing four-day Test matches.
The Frenchman, now ranked 57th after last year serving a ban for testing positive for cocaine which was reduced on appeal due to mitigating circumstances, was defeated in a five-set epic by Russian 20th seed Mikhail Youzhny.
He said there were no mitigating circumstances and although Rodgers had not pulled the trigger, he had driven the hijacked taxi after Miss Doherty knowing there was going to be only one outcome if she was caught.
Mr Schwartz, too, can claim mitigating circumstances.
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There are mitigating circumstances.
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Summit County Judge Lynne S. Callahan will issue a formal sentence next Tuesday, which could be death if she determines "beyond a reasonable doubt that the aggravating circumstances the offender was found guilty of committing outweigh the mitigating factors, " according to Ohio state law.
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