Prosecutors, defense file additional papers for Miura case

Tuesday 06th May, 10:13 AM JST

LOS ANGELES —

Prosecutors and the defense attorney for Kazuyoshi Miura on Monday filed supplemental papers on a motion to suppress an arrest warrant against the Japanese businessman in connection with the shooting death of his wife in the early 1980s. Miura’s defense had claimed from the beginning that there were two California penal codes pertaining to the double jeopardy that applies to Miura’s case.

At a hearing last month, Miura’s Los Angeles defense attorney Mark Geragos furthered his argument in court by claiming that one of the two applicable penal codes is a legal bar to the prosecution of Miura, consequently granting him immunity. The supplemental motion filed Monday is aimed at bolstering the defense’s assertion that the prosecution is ‘‘legally barred...and must be dismissed.’’ The latest documents filed by Deputy District Attorneys Alan Jackson and Ricardo Ocampo, meanwhile, rebuff the defense attorney’s argument, saying, the penal codes provided that they ‘‘do not recognize any foreign country’s prosecution for purposes of double jeopardy.’’

2 Comments

presidentbaka at 06:42 PM JST - 6th May

He's a murderer. Forget about double jeopardy, he served no time. Send this scum to his fate!
unscrejects at 03:14 PM JST - 7th May

Jackson and Ocampo are unschooled. Besides, Miura spent no less than 15 years doing time. ["Presidentbaka"]- the US Supreme Court will through the book at California. The LA DA's office handed the case over to Japan. That closes the docket on their side. Worse is that they knew that Japan would imprison Miura without evidence, which they did, for 15 years! Remember Govinda? Absolutely not guilty and yet he is in prison now for 8 years. Don't forget that all the evidence against Miura is the venom spewed by his mother-in-law who by the way has accused him of one crime after another from the day he got married. On another point don't forget that Miura was also shot in the incident. And, it was proven by investigators (US and Japanese) that he had had no time or means to hire a hitman and arrange the location - he'd just arrived in LA the night before. Should the LA DA's office be reminded that this was the time of all the random highway shootings? The man is innocent.