lenience
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While at Pinellas County Jail, he testified against or volunteered information on more than two dozen defendants in exchange for lenience from prosecutors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Lowe also said she had written to the council for "some lenience" after lambing season and her health problems.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
Tara worked for Community United; many linebreakers probably did, feeling protected by the consortium’s comparative lenience.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2022
Her lawyers say they hope such testimony will bring lenience from the judge, who they say under Russian law has leeway to consider mitigating factors.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
She could afford to be generous to a child, treat with lenience this clever ingenue who in this age could die, or at least imagine herself dying of love.
From When Dreams Come True by William Merritt Berger
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