attendant circumstance

That is to say, I am going to ask you to write me out a full account of the murder and its attendant circumstances.

There are no attendant circumstances that might invoke an excuse or other general defence.

But, given the attendant circumstances, refusing would have been fainthearted.

Gilman's dreams and their attendant circumstances have never been explained.

Several attendant circumstances seemed to favour the latter opinion.

General intent is an awareness of all factors constituting the crime; including attendant circumstances.

Its style of performance and expression change repeatedly throughout each ballet as the dancer changes with the attendant circumstances.

Shoe-cleaning was a nuisance not so much in itself as in its attendant circumstances.

And truly there were enough things in the room to evoke the curiosity of any man-- even though the attendant circumstances were less strange.

In the United States of America, some crimes also require proof of an attendant circumstance.

Entitativity means the consideration of something as pure entity, i.e., the mental abstraction from attendant circumstances.

The first part was a minute and detailed description of a crime, setting forth the antecedents, motives, and all attendant circumstances.

If the element involves attendant circumstances, he is aware of the circumstances or believes or hopes that they exist.

Attendant circumstance, a legal concept which Black's Law Dictionary defines as the "facts surrounding an event."

Purposefully: the actor has the "conscious object" of engaging in conduct and believes or hopes that the attendant circumstances exist.

For example, the crime of theft of government property would include as an attendant circumstance that the property belong to the government.

The person must be aware that he is acting in a proscibed way and be aware of a high likelihood that attendant circumstances will occur.

(When verification of an attendant circumstance decreases the penalty, it is known as a mitigating or extenuating circumstance.)

In the modern approach, the attendant circumstances tend to replace the traditional mens rea, indicating the level of culpability as well as other circumstances.

The "purpose" (as in situation 1) or "belief" (as in situation 2) required for an attempt do not necessarily encompass the attendant circumstances of the crime.

An aggravating circumstance is a kind of attendant circumstance and the opposite of an extenuating or mitigating circumstance, which decreases guilt.

Instead, the defendant must possess as to the attendant circumstances the degree of culpability required to commit the target offense, as specified in the elements of that offense.

You assume a great crime to have been committed by one whom I, acquainted with the attendant circumstances, and having numerous reasons on my side, devoutly believe to be innocent of it.

Something that is entitative is "considered as pure entity; abstracted from all circumstances", that is, regarded as entity alone, apart from attendant circumstances.

No clues at all really, except that one of the intruders had urinated over the lounge carpet-an attendant circumstance which had elicited little enthusiasm when reported to the path boys.