BOOK I
General provisions on felonies and misdemeanours, the persons responsible, the penalties, security measures and other consequences of criminal offences
TITLE I
On felonies and misdemeanours
CHAPTER III
On the circumstances that mitigate criminal accountability
Article 21
The following are mitigating circumstances :
1. The causes stated in the preceding Chapter, when not all the necessary requisites to exclude accountability in the respective cases concur.
2. The convict acting due to his serious addiction to the substances mentioned in Section 2 of the preceding Article.
3. The convict acting due to causes or stimuli so overpowering that they produced fury, obstinacy or another similar state of mind.
4. The convict having proceeded to confess his crime to the authorities before having knowledge of the judicial proceedings brought against him.
5. The convict having compensated the victim for the damages caused or having lessened the effects thereof, at some phase of the procedure and prior to the trial taking place.
6. Extraordinary or undue drawing out of the formalities of the proceedings, as long as this is not due to the convict, such prolongation being disproportionate to the complexity of the cause.
7.Any other circumstance of a similar importance to the aforesaid.
Mitigating factors - national proceedings
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