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mitigating circumstance

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See: justification


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In a nutshell: Friday's episode concerns a cop killer who may benefit from potentially mitigating circumstances.
He adduces this as a mitigating circumstance for the massacre but does not draw out how that designation fit into the larger, genocidal strategy of the American war effort.
While noting that the former Rwandan Prime Minister had cooperated and was still willing to cooperate with the Office of the Prosecutor and that his guilty plea was likely to encourage others to recognize their responsibilities during the tragic events of 1994 in Rwanda and, further, that a guilty plea is generally considered as a mitigating circumstance in most jurisdictions, the Court found Mr.
 
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