Mitigating Circumstance
nounid
91374·updated May 18, 2026verified
(law) a circumstance that does not exonerate a person but which reduces the penalty associated with the offense
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Entity Type
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- Mitigating Circumstances
- possessive
- Mitigating Circumstance's
- pluralpossessive
- Mitigating Circumstances'
Framework definitions
- §1
- (law) a circumstance that does not exonerate a person but which reduces the penalty associated with the offense
- §1 · legacy_primary
- (law) a circumstance that does not exonerate a person but which reduces the penalty associated with the offenseDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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