Sentencing Proposal



Sentencing Proposal

Before proposing a sentence, certain "aggravating" or "mitigating" circumstances are required to consider for determining where a particular criminal's punishment should fall along the prescribed spectrum. These commonly considered factors include:

The offense is done for the first time by the offender or is it a repeated offense, whether the person was the main offender or was supplementing other one as an accessory, whether under immense personal stress or pressure, the offender committed the crime, whether the offend done was predominantly brutal or particularly cruel, destructive, vindictive, etc. and (occasionally) whether the delinquent is actually contrite or remorseful.

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