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(law) a circumstance that does not exonerate a person but which reduces the penalty associated with the offense

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The intervening participial construction [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] cites the attendant circumstance that the opponent had already been gotten off balance when Dioxippus used his right hand to trip up his legs.
Finally, if the target crime requires a showing of particular attendant circumstances, (221) the prosecution must show that the defendant had the intent to provide those attendant circumstances.
When, as here, the case-specific facts and attendant circumstances show independent acts or omissions of negligence that are separate, distinct and independent from the sale or service of alcohol, Ohio Courts have permitted common law negligence actions to be maintained against the establishment.
Victor's Peace refers to the attendant circumstances in which a post war climate is fixed by an absolute winner, and the circumstances allow for the complete exclusion or marginalization of the loser or losers.
The recklessness and negligence mental elements apply to either a causation element or an attendant circumstances element.
166-167/2010 decided on February 28, 2012 wherein it was held "...Merely because a crime is heinous per se may not be a sufficient reason for the imposition of death penalty without reference to the other factors and attendant circumstances. Most of the heinous crimes under the IPC are punishable by death penalty or life imprisonment.
Proof of the crime requires first proving the attendant circumstances that an unpaid tax liability exists.
conduct, mens rea, or attendant circumstances. It may cover such varied
The court emphasized that the borrower's intention to encumber the property must be clearly manifest in the parties' language and the attendant circumstances.
A court must consider all attendant circumstances to determine whether the patient could have reasonably believed the physician was provided by the hospital.
Bre was one of the 1,000 children currently placed in foster homes in Lane County, usually because of meth and its attendant circumstances. About a third of these children end up adopted, but too many end up aging out of the system after being shuffled from foster homes to institutions to any number of places where their trust is violated and their love of life is suffocated.
Hence, treating them serially and in isolation from their attendant circumstances only obscures their meaning.
Instead, the transaction's probability should be supported by observable facts and the attendant circumstances, such as the following:
It stated that the appropriate standard for determining if adequate notice is given is one of reasonableness in view of all attendant circumstances. The fact that the landlord misconstrued the tenant's status as charitable foundation rather than a religious corporation does not render the notice unreasonable.
Chapter two presents a detailed discussion of the component features of this `complex', with a technical and highly detailed textual discussion of various attendant circumstances and phenomena in what the author considers to be the c.