General Part
Section 3.
Punishment.
Chapter 10.
Assignment of punishment.
Article 62. Circumstances mitigating liability and punishment.
1. Circumstances mitigating liability and punishment are as follows:
1) committal of a not grave and medium-gravity crime, for the first time, by coincidental circumstances;
2) being under age at the moment of committal of the crime;
3) being pregnant when committing the crime or when assigning the punishment;
4) caring for a child under 14 years of age at the moment when assigning the punishment;
5) committal of crime as a result of hard living conditions or out of compassion;
6) committal of crime due to breach of proportionality of necessary defense, capturing a perpetrator, urgent necessity, justified risk or carrying out orders or instructions;
7) illegal or immoral behavior of the aggrieved which determined the crime;
8) committal of the crime under threat or enforcement, or under financial, service or other dependence;
9) surrender, assistance in solving the crime, exposing other participants of the crime, in searching the illegally acquired property;
10) offering medical or other assistance to the aggrieved immediately after the crime, voluntary compensation for the property and moral damage inflicted by the crime, or other actions aimed at the mitigation of the damage inflicted to the aggrieved.
2. When assigning a punishment, other circumstances, not mentioned in part 1 of this Article can be taken into account as mitigating ones.
3. If a circumstance mentioned in part 1 of this Article, is envisaged in the appropriate article of the Special Part of this Code as an element of a crime, then it can not be repeatedly taken into account as a circumstance mitigating the liability and the punishment.
Sentencing - national proceedings
Determination of sentence - national proceedings
Mitigating factors - national proceedings
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