Double Jeopardy Case Study

In regards to basic criminal procedures, the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution contains some very important basic rights which enable citizens to have protection against the government. These rights consist of the following; due process, substantive due process, Miranda warning, indictment, self-incrimination, grand jury, jury, double jeopardy, and collateral estoppel, immunity from prosecution, eminent domain, takings, and lastly territorial jurisdiction. Nevertheless, this investigation will cover the basic and many varied interpretations of double jeopardy and how they applied to the local case of Robert Nicholas Angleton. Double jeopardy is within the United States Constitutions Fifth Amendment, “The State with all its …show more content…
Before the couple had married, they were married to other people; they had met briefly at Roberts’s place of business. Robert Angleton made a majority of his living bookmaking, most of the proceeds being obtained illegally the couple and their two children lived an extravagant life within the River Oaks community here in Harris County Texas. The Angleton’s lived in a lovely home, their children attended private school, Doris Angleton had a very pleasant and outgoing personality that led her to being a popular socialite who had many friends; her husband on the other hand was viewed as being “rough around the edges”. Those who were around the Angleton’s were unaware of how Robert made his living and those that did know did not seem to regard it as being “illegal”. Robert Angleton was said to have been an excellent provider for his family and doted on his family regularly with expensive gifts, it was said that his wife, Doris was beginning to grow lonely within their marriage and had reached out to chatroom websites in an attempt to cure her loneliness and eventually ended up meeting someone in person. Tension began to spread within their marriage and Doris had filed for divorce, requesting half of the couples combined assets, the couple was attempting to remain cordial with one another and were attending counseling together all had seemed well or at least was portrayed to seem well. Doris Angleton made a trip home to pick up a softball bat that was forgotten and did not return to the game. Later on, Robert Angleton dropped his children off after their softball game and discovered the body of his wife Doris Angleton who had been shot thirteen times there were no signs of forced entry into the home. However, during their marriage together, it was also rumored that Roberts brother Roger Angleton had made