Sentence examples for evidence in mitigation from inspiring English sources

they can still give effect to the evidence in mitigation by sentencing the defendant to life, as opposed to death.'" App.

During a sentencing hearing that started on Wednesday, in which he was asked to present evidence in mitigation of his guilt, Amir had spent the lunch hour in the company of his legal team in the court's spartan canteen.

"In light of the offense Jordan has been found guilty of committing, and the substantial evidence in mitigation," an Army spokesman, Col. James Yonts, said in a statement, "Rowe determined that an administrative reprimand was a fair and appropriate disposition of the matter".

having unanimously found that his conduct in committing the offense is outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved depravity of mind and/or aggravated battery and having considered the evidence in mitigation of the offense, unanimously fix his punishment at death". App.

What we see in case after case is that even after years of reinvestigation and relitigation, the horrifying facts of the crime remain far more than sufficient to outweigh the minimally relevant evidence in mitigation".

The Rule also provides that the accused is to have "broad latitude to present evidence in extenuation and mitigation," 1004(b)(3), and is entitled to have the members of the court martial instructed to consider all such evidence before deciding upon a death sentence, 1004(b)(6).

There is some evidence of success in mitigation in Anlong and Xingyi.

"In the absence of other explanations" for such brutal acts, Mr. Acker said, jurors believe a defendant "did it out of pure evil". The evidence to be offered in mitigation could make Mr. Harris seem to the jury "less of an individual who has no semblance of humanity," the professor said.

By this language we did not intend to lay down any new or hard and fast rule concerning evidence to be heard in mitigation in proceedings for contempt; and certainly there was no purpose to restrict the discretion of the trial judge in such cases more narrowly than in ordinary criminal trials.

Specifically, defendant asserts that the plaintiff's failure amounted to contributory negligence, or in the alternative, that evidence should have been admitted in mitigation of damages or in proof of an avoidable consequence.

The Football Association of Wales forwarded evidence of King's previous good behaviour in mitigation.