All 9 Uses of
mitigate
in
Native Son
- The laws of this state allow the offering of evidence in mitigation of punishment, and I shall request, at such time as the Court deems best, that I be given the opportunity to offer evidence as to the mental and emotional attitude of this boy, to show the degree of responsibility he had in these crimes.†
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- Further, I want to prevail upon this Court to consider this boy's plea of guilty as evidence mitigating his punishment".†
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- And, also, the law permits the offering of evidence toward the mitigation of punishment.
Book 3 *mitigation = reduction (of something bad)
- The counsel for the defense claims, and would have this Court believe, that the mere act of entering a plea of guilty to this indictment should be accepted as evidence mitigating punishment.†
Book 3
- "A man commits two of the most horrible murders in the history of American civilization" he confesses" and his counsel would have us believe that because he pleads guilty after dodging the law, after attempting to murder the officers of the law, that his plea should be looked upon as evidence mitigating his punishment!†
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- I shall present argument to show that his extreme youth, his mental and emotional life, and the reason why he has pleaded guilty, should and must mitigate his punishment.†
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- "The State's Attorney has sought to create the belief that I'm trying to spring some surprise upon this Court by having my client enter a plea of guilty" he has sought to foster the notion that some legal trick is involved in the offering of evidence to mitigate this boy's punishment.†
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- Under this law the Court is able to hear evidence as to the aggravation or mitigation of the offense.†
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- The object of this law is to caution the Court to seek to find out why a man killed and to allow that why to be the measure of the mitigation of the punishment.†
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Definition:
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(mitigate) make less harmful or unpleasant