In this episode your host, Brooke Weber will discuss the trial of Annette Green. Green was the first woman in a same-sex relationship to use the "Battered Woman Syndrome" as a defense after killing her partner of 11 years.  Your host will discuss what the term "Battered Woman Syndrome" means and the double burden that same-sex couples face when trying to get help from the criminal justice system in domestic abuse cases. In the next episode, listeners will hear the story of Debra Reid.  Both of these episodes were inspired, by the novel In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado.