Well, maybe you misunderstood the plan. If his plan had worked, there wasn't going to be any need for double-jeopardy.
The plan was obviously not to get convicted and then have the conviction overturned so he could use double-jeopardy to get off the hook. If it were, he wouldn't have started defending himself, with the intent of using the DVD to prove his claims, etc. during his first trial.
The plan was to 1) get charged based on his own planted evidence, 2) lure the DA into using faked DNA evidence against him and 3) defend himself in the first trial by revealing his own planted evidence AND showing that he was being framed by an unscrupulous prosecutor using faked DNA evidence. Under his plan, he would have been acquitted or found innocent.
All of the focus would then have been on how daring an investigative reporter he had been to pursue the story lead about the DA using faked DNA evidence to frame and convict other innocent defendants.
In all of the hoopla of unseating the sitting DA, no one was supposed to notice that the Shreveport murder victim was also the subject of his earlier (Buffalo) news story. She was anonymous and nobody else was ever going to know she was blackmailing CJ with the threat of exposing him as a fraud.
Nobody suspected any connection between the two. Remember, CJ's news piece was from Buffalo, not Shreveport. Most people in Shreveport would never have seen a Buffalo "human interest" news story.
It's only because he showed Ella the videotape (and she was able to review it again) that she was able to make the connection based on the tattoos.
She explained away double-jeopardy as being a non-factor (for all the viewers at home, so to speak) to close off that loophole in anyone's mind.
Nobody ever said his plan was brilliant; he was just desperate.
So much for what you found to be "beyond obvious".
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