How to Use "extenuation" with Example Sentences

1. Counsel pleaded the accused 's age in extenuation of his actions .
2. He pleaded poverty in extenuation of ie as an excuse for the theft .
3. Judge : do you have anything to say in mitigation or extenuation before I pass sentence ?
4. Her plea of ignorance of the law in extenuation of her crime was not accepted .
5. Were such a man once more to fall , what plea could be urged in extenuation of his crime ?