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Mitigating Factors: Righting the Wrong before Detection

By Baker Associates

Today?s blog unsurprisingly continues with the recent focus of our criminal blogs on the mitigating factors defendants may be able to use to receive a more favorable outcome at sentencing. These mitigating factors are recognized by the laws of the State of Tennessee as factors that tend to mitigate a defendant?s responsibility for a crime and may lead to the defendant receiving a less severe sentence following a conviction. One such mitigating factor is explained as: ?Before detection, the defendant compensated or made a good faith attempt to compensate the victim of criminal conduct for the damage or injury the victim sustained.? This could occur in a myriad of ways. For example, someone could have stolen a significant amount of money from a friend or employer and went back to that person before being discovered by the authorities and offered to pay them back the money or set up some sort of payment plan...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on January 19, 2010 (boomark / email).