extenuation

Although I do not offer that as an extenuation of my failing.

All that could be said in accusation or extenuation was known to the judge already.

She finished panting a little, trying to make the last sound like extenuation.

"Does the defendant have anything to say in mitigation or extenuation?"

We had in the short space of seven days lost, beyond all extenuation or excuse, three separate actions.

Were such a man once more to fall, what plea could be urged in extenuation of his crime?

How cowardly of him to state the fact without the extenuation."

"Does the defense have evidence in extenuation and mitigation?"

Most juries will buy just about any sob story in extenuation.

In extenuation, I can only say that you just don't look old enough."

"Does the defense, then, intend to call witnesses in extenuation or mitigation?"

"I was only going by what my father said in his letters," he explained, in extenuation.

And he had not pleaded, nor attempted any extenuation.

"It is, but it's not nearly so bad as the old American code, where there was an exception and an extenuation for everything.

The circumstances of his marriage, too, were found to admit of much extenuation.

The guilt of the first two was so evident that little could be said in extenuation of it.

We are not concerned with an act of homicide committed on a sudden impulse which might serve as extenuation.

'But it would have come better with the accompanying speech of extenuation.

"You look good to me," she cried, in extenuation.

In extenuation it must be explained that he had never read a Russian novel in his life.

Having declined to testify, do you have any statement to make in mitigation or extenuation?"

Invited to plead in extenuation, he refused, with impregnable dignity.

These witnesses offer to make statements in extenuation and mitigation if a guilty verdict is given.

"But I somehow just can't," he said in extenuation.

I must say, in extenuation, that of optimists I am the most optimistic.