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Mitigating circumstances

March 20, 2013 – by legal glossary

Mitigating circumstances – this term describes these facts which, while not negating an offence or wrongful action, tend to show that the defendant may have had some grounds for acting the way he/she did, for example in cases of doing a crime after provocation.

See also http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=1267 .

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