Legal Services - Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Mitigation tells the story of a defendant's life, putting the alleged crime in the context of medical, mental, educational, and family history. Defendants are often not the best narrator of their own story – that's especially true with clients who struggle with drug addiction or mental illness. We begin with interviewing the person accused to gather information and build a relationship. Then we expand to family and others who have relevant evidence. In every case, we look at the following: family history, medical records, psychiatric history, educational level, economic status, employment history, and cultural background of the client and client's caregivers. We create a timeline of the client's life that illuminates the impact of these factors with sources cited and provided as exhibits.A person's life history does not offer excuses for committing a crime. However, a person's life history does provide reasons and context for the commission of the crime, and it gives the judges, juries, and prosecutors the data necessary to make an informed, rational sentence or charging document.
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