conspiring to murder his pregnant girlfriend and attempt to murder his infant son meanwhile morris alexander was sentenced to twenty years for firing a warning shot into a ceiling and invent them to protect herself and her infant child from an abusive husband author a speaker do walk and broke down the two cases highlighting the ugly and equality is found in domestic violence in a recent salon article and he joins us now to discuss welcome. this is these are two it's a fascinating article and fascinating two cases that you kind of lay out here i mean what is it about these two very different but very similar cases of domestic violence or you know domestic violence around them that makes them so you know indictive of our current criminal justice systems treatment of domestic violence so we know the courts have their own different state laws and you know we know we can't really compare what happened in those two different courtrooms but at the same time this is two states apart in one instance you have a person to be in sentence who actually conspired to murder a person in an effort to avoid c