What does "extenuating circumstances" mean?
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It is a legal term that states basically a person would be foung guilty of a crime-extenuating circumstances may consist that the leg you broke wasn't out of its cast, so ther's no way you could have jumped from one rooftop to another...
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From Britannica online: "Circumstance that diminishes the culpability of one who has committed a criminal offense and so can be considered to mitigate the punishment." More here as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extenuating_circumstances
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Extenuating circumstances are what caused the incident to happen. Outside factors that affected things.Sometimes they are the events leading up to the incident.
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