All of the Following Are Examples of Mitigating Factors, EXCEPT

question 18

Multiple Choice

All of the following are examples of mitigating factors, EXCEPT:

• A) Mental state of the defendant was affected by a new antidepressant medication that sometimes leads to unprovoked aggression.
• B) The defendant was hired by the victim to be a getaway driver after the bank robbery that led to a fatal police chase.
• C) The defendant had illegally acquired a gun that was later used in the homicide and loaned it to various other people.
• D) The victim was a step-father who sexually abused the defendant for many years, and on the day of the murder the defendant discovered that the step-father started molesting the defendant's younger sister.

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Function Morphemes

Words or affixes that provide grammatical relationships between words in a sentence but do not have explicit meanings by themselves.

Nonsense Syllables

A string of sounds that do not form meaningful words, used in psychological experiments to study memory and learning processes, avoiding the influence of prior knowledge.

Morphemes

The smallest grammatical units in a language that carry meaning.

Phonemes

The smallest units of sound in a language that can distinguish one word from another.