Sentence examples for not a mitigating factor from inspiring English sources

In seeking the stiff 15-year terms, prosecutors argued that a lack of ideological motivation was not a mitigating factor.

His diminished capacity owing to alcohol is not a mitigating factor, but her diminished capacity is an aggravating factor for him.

More to the point, you would need to prefer it over those aspects of Italian cars, bearing in mind that the original GT's mission was to beat Ferrari (we assume that if you can afford to buy either the GT or the F430, the $30,000 price difference is not a mitigating factor).

"Arias' age is not a mitigating factor.

"It tells the community that it's not a mitigating factor for extreme violence that someone made a pass at them, either real or imagined.

In freak cases, variants on the abuse excuse continue to prevail: just last month, the Indiana Supreme Court recognised battered-wife syndrome as a legitimate defence (not just a mitigating factor) against a criminal charge of neglecting a child.

Paul Mendelle, a criminal barrister and former chairman of the Criminal Bar Association, said the behaviour of the victim is not usually a mitigating factor.

Medical schools have a reputation for having somewhat lax dissertation standards, but Dannemann says that should not be a mitigating factor in von der Leyen's case.

They also make clear that to be related to a victim will not be considered a mitigating factor, given that some relatives might be manipulative.

Paul Boghossian, a philosopher at N.Y.U., told me that the critics of the Abu Dhabi project "tend not to mention a mitigating factor, which is that the Emirates is spending enormous amounts of money providing a free, first-class education to some very talented and, in many cases, very needy kids, who are recruited with great effort from all over the world".

In any U.S. sentencing proceeding — whether in federal, state or military court, and regardless of whether a judge or jury decided the sentence — it would likely be a violation of the Eighth and 14th Amendments for evidence of harsh pre-trial detention conditions and abuse in custody not to be a mitigating factor in sentencing.