Mitigating Circumstances

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1. For passion or obfuscation, must the powerful stimulus arise from legitimate sentiments rather than a spirit of lawless…
2. An offender proves an illness but the factfinder establishes that it did not diminish willpower in the relevant acts. H…
3. A remote grievance is invoked as passion or obfuscation, but a considerable interval allowed recovery of normal composu…
4. An offender’s claim of a powerful legitimate stimulus is corroborated by compelling outward conduct and the full record…
5. A court rejects complete self-defense but the record independently establishes a qualifying powerful legitimate stimulu…
6. Explain why illness alone is not the complete Article 13(9) inquiry.
7. State the stimulus and timing limits of passion or obfuscation as explained in Singcol.
8. Can rejection of self-defense automatically foreclose a separately proved passion-or-obfuscation ground? Explain.