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Double Jeopardy Clause Of The Fifth Amendment To The US

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According to the Double Jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a person cannot be prosecuted twice for the same crime. The movie of the same name, involves a wife, who is prosecuted at the beginning of the movie for the alleged murder of her husband. At the end of the movie, after it is learned that the husband framed the wife, she ends up killing him. As to whether the double jeopardy clause would apply in this situation, I believe it would. Even if she wasn’t seen killing her husband in the beginning, in the eyes of the law, the evidence showed she did. So killing her husband in the end is the same crime. Simple, yeah?
Some reasons why I could see the clause not working are because the husband is assuming a different

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