Sentence examples for mitigating evidence from inspiring English sources

In this case, Justice Sotomayor made clear, extensive, uncontested mitigating evidence was not allowed to mitigate.

as mitigating evidence.

He is expected to present mitigating evidence to Uefa as the investigation proceeds.

The judge refused to admit Mr. Carr's disgust as mitigating evidence.

But Duncan refused to introduce any mitigating evidence about his childhood.

Tennessee law requires juries to take mitigating evidence into account before they impose the death penalty.

"Most lawyers didn't put mitigating evidence on at all," Recer said.

Almost all answered no, saying they would listen to mitigating evidence and consider alternative punishment.

"The mitigating evidence counsel failed to discover and present in this case is powerful," Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote.

Consequently, the special-issue structure did not allow the jury to give full effect to mitigating evidence, the court said.

Such mitigating evidence might include a defendant's youth, poverty, mental disability, or lack of a prior record.