What Were They Thinking? When Sentencing Seems To Make No Sense

Season 18Episode 3560 minoct. 25, 2019
What Were They Thinking? When Sentencing Seems To Make No Sense

Dr. Phil takes a closer look at what many call "outrageously lenient sentences" for serious, high-profile crimes. Dr. Phil meets a former superior court judge who lost his job after giving zero jail time to a man who strangled a woman unconscious and threatened to kill her. Also, a rape victim's mother speaks out for the first time on daytime television about how her daughter's rapist walked out of court with zero jail time.

What Were They Thinking? When Sentencing Seems To Make No Sense has aired on oct. 25, 2019
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