Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Crime and Consequences

Criminal Law

: Crime and Consequences

The Miura Case: Foreign Judgments, Double Jeopardy, and Ex Post Facto

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Japanese media are abuzz with the case of Kazuyoshi Miura, a Japanese businessman accused of killing his wife and then claiming they had been mugged during a visit to Los Angeles in 1981. But the Los Angeles District Attorney has a problem. Miura was previously prosecuted for this crime in Japan. The LA Times website has stories on this case all the way back, including this recent one. Miura was originally convicted, but the conviction was reversed and an acquittal entered by a higher court. Miura is presently in jail in Saipan in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands awaiting extradition to L.A. He is represented by Mark Geragos, who has filed this motion to quash and points and authorities. This case is not really about the constitutional double jeopardy clauses, state or federal...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on March 18, 2008 (boomark / email).