The phrase "aggravated circumstances" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or formal contexts to describe situations that are made worse by specific factors or conditions.
Example: "The judge considered the aggravated circumstances of the case before making a ruling."
Alternatives: "mitigating factors" or "extenuating circumstances".
This retaliation should only be resorted to under peculiarly aggravated circumstances".
The sentence could also be extended to life imprisonment if the charges are extended to include the aggravated circumstances.
It was the conviction that crime that when added to the murder conviction, created the aggravated circumstances that qualified Mr. McGinn for the death penalty.
He returned from America only a few months since. The jury, after an absence of ten minutes only, returned a verdict of Manslaughter. His Lordship, addressing the prisoner, said: The jury had acquitted him of murder, but had found him guilty of manslaughter under very aggravated circumstances, which morally as well as legally left his offence but one step short of murder.
Prosecutors had said from the start of the trial that they would seek the death penalty because of the "aggravated" circumstances of the crimes Dr. Gosnell was charged with: murder of more than one person and the young age of the victims.
Aggravating circumstances — like the use of a weapon, or harm inflicted on a child — can lead to orders of as much as five years.
The revised code calls for a possible minimum ban of four years if there are "aggravating circumstances," which would include being involved in doping schemes.
Another third involved what the researchers called "aggravating circumstances," like teenagers using pictures for blackmail or someone forwarding topless pictures of an ex after a breakup.
The multiple deaths and age of the babies reportedly killed with scissors are aggravating circumstances that warrant the death penalty, Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore said Wednesday.
Until now, a prosecutor could simply obtain an indictment for murder, making no mention of the death penalty to grand jurors, and decide later to argue for the death penalty on the basis of aggravating circumstances.
In accordance with the Code, aggravating circumstances including involvement in multiple anti-doping rule violations and participation in a sophisticated doping scheme and conspiracy as well as trafficking, administration and/or attempted administration of a prohibited substance or method, justify a period of ineligibility greater than the standard sanction.
