That's what the person like me who doesn't want to hear what the mounting evidence seems to show and what a lot of other people would say to mitigating circumstances.
In this case, during the trial the attorneys, the lawyers who work for this woman accused of murder, tried to show that there were " mitigating circumstances."
Well, stealing food is a crime, but the judge might decide there were " mitigating circumstances" – things that, even though you did commit the crime, mean that you shouldn't be punished as severely or as heavily.
Geraldo says, " During the trial, her attorneys tried to show that there were mitigating circumstances, but the judge didn't buy it." So I guess we're talking about a woman who murdered someone, not a man.