1. Are there any mitigating circumstances in this case?

2. The jury must take into account any mitigating circumstances presented by the defense, such as previous good character.

3. Are there any mitigating circumstances/factors which might help explain her appalling behaviour?

4. Judges often give reduced sentences where there are mitigating circumstances.

5. In its defence, the Government pleads mitigating circumstances.

6. A mitigating circumstance is the fact that few library users restrict themselves to one source alone for obtaining books.

7. The same mitigating circumstances were present in this case as were present in Smith-Bryant.

8. If you were to change sides, with mitigating circumstances,() you could get a suspended sentence.

9. I understand that there are mitigating circumstances, programming complications, contracts, etc.

10. The judge found that in her case there were mitigating circumstances.

11. Lancashire were subsequently fined ￡500, not ￡700, because of mitigating circumstances.

12. Did a white-hot surge of anger and disillusion count as a mitigating circumstance, disturbing the balance of the mind?

13. A good barrister - he'd known Thomas Walters for years - would be able to argue mitigating circumstances.

14. In Switzerland the suicide rate goes up during the foehn, and in the courts of some Swiss cantons the wind is considered a mitigating circumstance for crime.

15. "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.