Quotes about mitigating (16 Quotes)


    Certainly the message was very clear after the Nov. 19 incident in that it was clear to our players that they were not to enter the stands under any circumstances. Certainly this suspension is evident to the fact that we're very serious about that declaration. We realize there were some mitigating circumstances and we did in fact take that into account.

    In addition to mitigating climate warming, we should also be focusing on how to adapt. In the last few years people have realized that climate change will happen. Adapting is not a choice - it's something we need to do.

    But if ever there was a case where someone's life experiences cry out to be a mitigating factor, this one does. The system will spare no expense to house and punish her ... but this same system let her down, time and time again, as a child. With all she's been through, it's a wonder she's not a mass murderer.

    We must make improvements to the water system to meet the new arsenic standard. The problem is that the cost of (mitigating a) well is what it is, whether a system serves 10 customers or 1,000. That is why we developed the alternate proposal for the CPUC to consider, so that rates for customers in small systems aren't impacted so dramatically.

    Mr. Ashworth's decision to plead guilty and failure to offer any mitigating evidence has been exhaustively reviewed by both the state and federal courts, and five medical experts have confirmed his competency to do so,


    The only mitigating circumstance in this case is, we know she did suffer from a mental illness. That did not necessarily excuse her conduct or criminal responsibility, but we did take that into account.


    Her lawyer, Robert Axelrod, said there was no doubt she committed the theft, but she claimed she was influenced by her then-boyfriend, Roberto Solis. The evidence of the physical acts are quite overwhelming. But there are mitigating factors, ... He brainw

    That would very likely put you in a situation of being able to argue very effectively that although a member of the conspiracy, you should be given a significantly mitigating role, and that might be sufficient for the jury to find that the death penalty would not be appropriate in your case.


    The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance....



    We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true, though, happily, for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating if not excusing its crimes.

    I would believe the concerns for a loved one in the stands and the fact he just went up to see if everything was OK would be a mitigating circumstance. It would be a scary situation if you had concerns for a wife or child in the stands. I can understand why he went up there.

    District Attorney Paul Morrison argued that jurors are only required to consider the mitigating factors -- not necessarily give them a certain weight. It's ridiculous to get a juror to promise in voir dire that they will give weight to aggravating and mitigating factors, ... It is not the law and it flies in the face of common sense as well.



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