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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. Attendant circumstance - Wikipedia

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    The attendant circumstance of a transborder exercise is not referred to in the definition, but is a critical factual circumstance which will determine whether the accused can be tried as charged. The case was held more properly within the Missouri jurisdiction. This jurisdictional problem would not arise in relation to conspiracy charges.

  4. 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 ...

  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. Zero tolerance - Wikipedia

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    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 circumstances, or history.

  7. Bystander effect - Wikipedia

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    However, no concrete definition of extenuating circumstances was ever made. The South African courts began using the testimony of expert social psychologists to define what extenuating circumstances would mean in the justice system. Examples include: deindividuation, bystander apathy, and conformity.

  8. 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]

  9. Trump to call for 'all of government' response to fight ... - AOL

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    President-elect Donald Trump on Monday will sign a memorandum aimed at fighting inflation after he takes office that calls for an "all of government" response to bring down costs for Americans, an ...