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There are also mitigating circumstances to explain Harper's poor performance.

Kenteris's lawyer, Michalis Dimitrakopoulos, said: "It is simply unbelievable to refuse any mitigating circumstances to Olympic champions.

The panel said the instructions wrongly implied that all jurors had to agree on mitigating circumstances to avoid issuing a death penalty.

It advises drivers who accidentally or unintentionally overstay the free parking period and believe they have mitigating circumstances to contact the duty manager before leaving the site.

The next year , 1991 Texas amended its death penalty law to instruct the jury explicitly that a death sentence cannot be imposed if there are "sufficient" mitigating circumstances to warrant a life sentence instead.

Lawyers for Mr. Wilson face an unusual burden, proving not that their client is innocent of the crimes but that there were enough mitigating circumstances to save him from a death sentence.

4.21am GMT 15th over: England 71-2 (Stokes 6, Ballance 1) That run-out did have one mitigating circumstance, to be totally honest.

Mr. Durham, he said, gently disagreed and proceeded in the kindest terms to remind him of the obligations of prosecutors to consider mitigating circumstances and to use their authority carefully.

But Sir John said: "That will be the last time this court will, unless there are strong mitigating circumstances, fail to refer people to the Solicitors Regulation Authority for a breach of these very high duties to the court".

This is neither to deny that there were mitigating circumstances nor to contend that German responsibility was sole.

Sentencing people to death without taking account of aggravating and mitigating circumstances leads to arbitrary results.