См. также: prejudicial effect, preferential regime, prepare the country for war, pretence
His previous convictions include fraud and tax evasion, theft and forgery, obtaining property by deception and counterfeit currency as well as a number of prison sentences. (Yorkshire Evening Post)
A judge spared Leila Le Fey from jail after she threatened a shop manager with a claw hammer, despite her having 50 previous convictions. The grounds for leniency were that Le Fey is a trans woman without documents to prove her gender reassignment and therefore would be sent to a male-only prison. (Daily Mail)
The circumstances of the offence were that the defendant, a 20 year old man with no previous convictions, was in a pub. (Defence-Barrister.co.uk)
