296:, but found conspiracy charges, which do not have capital punishment, valid. Miura gave up the fight to extradition and was transported to Los Angeles, California, arriving in the early morning of October 10, 2008, That night, according to an announcement by the police, he committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell. Although an independent pathologist hired by the defense attorney stated the evidence showed Miura was murdered while in jail, the Los Angeles County coroner ruled that the cause of death was suicide.
254:, LAPD homicide detectives did not believe that Miura was the perpetrator, but rather that the events had been a "vicious...street crime". However one officer, Jimmy Sakoda, head of the Asian Crimes Squad, did not share the homicide detectives' conclusions. He took his concerns to Reiner who then began working with Japanese prosecutors. Reiner has stated that were it not for Sakoda's persistence the case might have been relegated to the unsolved, or
214:. On that day, an unknown assailant shot Miura in the right leg and his wife in the head while the two were in a parking lot. After the shooting, Kazumi Miura remained in a coma. She was flown back to Japan by a U.S. Air Force hospital jet. She was blind, paralyzed, unconscious and subsisting on life-support machinery. She died almost a year to the day after the shooting. Kazumi Miura was the mother of a 13-month-old child.
285:, where he was arrested on February 22, 2008. In Saipan, he began fighting extradition to California, and hired lawyers both on Saipan and in Los Angeles. A former federal prosecutor noted that the 27 years since the crime could help Miura's defense. "Witness memories don't get better with time," she said in an interview with the
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118:homicide
258:files.
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133:Penalty
114:Assault
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