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“acceptance of responsibility”
A genuine admission or acknowledgment of wrong doing.
Acceptance of responsibility can be exemplified in a report of a federal presentence investigation when convicted offenders wrote an explanation and apologized for the crime(s) they committed
An acceptance of responsibility is a provision that may be considered in deciding whether leniency should be extended to offenders during the sentencing phase of their processing.
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