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Mitigating Factors: Minor Role in the Offense

By Baker Associates

Many of our previous blogs have discussed mitigating factors that may be useful to defendants in the sentencing phase of their criminal trials and this one continues that trend. The fact that the defendant played a minor role in the offense for which he or she was convicted is a useful mitigating factor recognized by the State of Tennessee that may serve to reduce the defendant?s sentence. To make use of this factor, the defendant simply needs to prove that he or she was convicted of an offense in which he or she played a minor role as compared to others who may have played a more significant role in the offense. Basically, the defendant is saying that other people were more responsible for, or played a bigger part in, the commission of the offense than the defendant...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on January 13, 2010 (boomark / email).