Aggravating Circumstances


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Special circumstances that increase the seriousness or outrageousness of a given crime, and thus increase a wrongdoer's penalty or punishment, such as when the crime of aggravated assault, a physical attack made worse when committed with a dangerous weapon, results in severe bodily injury or is made in conjunction with another serious crime. Aggravated assault is usually considered a felony, punishable by a prison sentence.
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He was in the prime of life, but very bald--had been in the army and the coal trade--wore very stiff collars and prodigiously long wristbands--seldom laughed, but talked with remarkable glibness, and was never known to lose his temper under the most aggravating circumstances of prison existence.
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It was an aggravating circumstance in the case that he had no idea of this, but conceived that he was making me amends in every new discovery: not to say, heaping obligations on my head.
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said Mr Lillyvick--rather sharply; for he had not known what Nicholas was, on the previous night, and it was rather an aggravating circumstance if a tax collector had been too polite to a teacher.
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provided for the application of Italian law and for the Court of Milan to be the court of competent jurisdiction * Most of the documents are written in Italian * There is a trial pending at the Court of Milan in which Martina Hingis put forward the same claims as those included in the American summons * Martina Hingis did not provide any proof of the willfulness of the alleged offence nor of additional aggravating circumstances, both of which are fundamental in order to settle punitive damages.
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With respect to sentencing, the Chamber considered as aggravating circumstances the gravity of the offences, particularly the large number of crimes in a wide geographical area, the vulnerability of the victims, and the abuse of your position of authority," said Alphons Orie, the presiding judge.
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His defence solicitor, Katherine Hodson, said the ban was unfair and urged magistrates to slash it, arguing there were no aggravating circumstances.
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