United States v. Robert Nicholas Angleton

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Robert Angleton was acquitted, in state court, of the murder of his wife. A federal grand jury then indicted him for the same murder. Angleton appeals, on grounds of double jeopardy, the denial of his motion to dismiss the indictment. Concluding that the dual sovereignty doctrine permits a successive prosecution, we affirm.

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In April 1997, Doris Angleton was shot to death in her Houston home. At the time, she was seeking a divorce from her husband, Robert Angleton, a local bookmaker and police informant.

An investigation led police to suspect that Roger Angleton,…