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  2. Mitigating factor - Wikipedia

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    This provides the accused an opportunity to place his antecedents, social and economic background and mitigating and extenuating circumstances before the court. Besides the statutory provisions, the Constitution of India also empowers the President and the Governor of the State to grant pardon to the condemned offenders in appropriate cases.

  3. Exigent circumstance - Wikipedia

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    Emergency aid doctrine is an exception to the Fourth Amendment, allowing warrantless entry to premises if exigent circumstances make it necessary. [8] A number of exceptions are classified under the general heading of criminal enforcement: where evidence of a suspected crime is in danger of being lost; where the police officers are in hot pursuit; where there is a probability that a suspect ...

  4. Attendant circumstance - Wikipedia

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    In law, attendant circumstances (sometimes external circumstances) are the facts surrounding an event. In criminal law in the United States , the definition of a given offense generally includes up to three kinds of "elements": the actus reus , or guilty conduct; the mens rea , or guilty mental state; and the attendant (sometimes "external ...

  5. EDITORIAL: Extenuating circumstances? - AOL

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    Aug. 31—Okay, We at the Register concede that stepping onto California Street in between intersections is a misdemeanor crime, according to local law. Does it really require a week in the county ...

  6. List of Talmudic principles - Wikipedia

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    Bediavad (extenuating circumstances) In cases of extenuating circumstances regarding a derabbanan, decisors of Jewish law sometimes apply the law leniently. [9]

  7. Fact-checking claim about Venezuela sending prisoners to the ...

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    Criminals encountered are not let into the country, "absent extenuating circumstances," according to the agency. CBP reports that so far in fiscal year 2022, which ends Sept. 30, officers at ports ...

  8. Amazon drops the hammer on remote work and orders employees ...

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    Jassy said that "extenuating circumstances" and senior-leader-approved exceptions would continue to be accommodated. "But, before the pandemic, it was not a given that folks could work remotely ...

  9. Zero tolerance - Wikipedia

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    NYPD Times Square sign. A zero-tolerance policy is one which imposes a punishment for every infraction of a stated rule. [1] [2] [3] Zero-tolerance policies forbid people in positions of authority from exercising discretion or changing punishments to fit the circumstances subjectively; they are required to impose a predetermined punishment regardless of individual culpability, extenuating ...