From a legal perspective, mitigating circumstances are conditions which cannot justify criminal offenses, but are seen as conditions to consider by the judge to influence a lesser penalty or sentence. <em>Examples of such conditions one could consider are age, history, remorse feelings of the person being charge with a criminal offense.</em>
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So in this question "positions from a broader perspective, suggesting that while their current position may appear negative it derives from positive motives"<em> refer to conditions the prosecutor should consider as mitigating circumstances.</em>
I believe it's this one: <span>Women are judged under laws supposedly written only for males, so they are entitled to the same rights as males. </span>
