extenuating circumstances

But really, you know, where are the extenuating circumstances?

"There may be some extenuating circumstances in your case—but I doubt it," he said.

There were extenuating circumstances about what Lafe Wynn had done.

Then he sat down: he had made no mention of extenuating circumstances.

The jury brought in a verdict of guilty with extenuating circumstances.

The writer of the essay admits that there may be extenuating circumstances.

I think it was the worst thing I did; yet there were extenuating circumstances.

But were there not some extenuating circumstances in my favor.

But in this case it can be shown that there were extenuating circumstances.

They accorded in both her case and that of Lucien extenuating circumstances.