attenuating circumstances

The court cited the orders given to him as attenuating circumstances.

In the particular case of the German Alcohol Monopoly, there are certain attenuating circumstances that allow it still to exist.

A great many years have passed since that terrible day, more than enough for me to understand that there was no justification for my acts, no attenuating circumstances whatsoever.

The law has changed to allow the perpetrator to only "benefit from the attenuating circumstances, provided that he serves a prison term of no less than two years in the case of killing."

When a person is found guilty of a capital offence, is there any power in the jury, or the court, to reduce the punishment below that of death by finding attenuating circumstances ?

This report argues that the Commission and the Council should undertake a balanced comprehensive assessment of all the relevant factors, especially of the extent to which they affect, as aggravating or attenuating circumstances, the assessment of compliance with the deficit and/or debt criteria.