All of the following are examples of mitigating factors, EXCEPT:
A) Mental state of the defendant was affected by a new antidepressant medication that sometimes leads to unprovoked aggression.
B) The defendant was hired by the victim to be a getaway driver after the bank robbery that led to a fatal police chase.
C) The defendant had illegally acquired a gun that was later used in the homicide and loaned it to various other people.
D) The victim was a step-father who sexually abused the defendant for many years, and on the day of the murder the defendant discovered that the step-father started molesting the defendant's younger sister.
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