Judge Steven Van Sicklen will preside over the hearing this Friday — tomorrow on Saipan — in L.A.
Miura, 61, is now entering his sixth month as a detainee on Saipan.
The 1988 arrest warrant that was re-issued this year is the legal basis for his detention.
Authorities arrested him last Feb. 22 at Saipan’s international airport on his way back to Tokyo upon the request of the L.A. Police Department. Miura was implicated in the fatal attack on his then 28-year-old wife Kazumi in a parking lot in 1981.
California did not prosecute Miura. Japan did but the country’s high court acquitted him of murder in 2003.
Miura’s defense team said he will be subjected to double jeopardy if he stands trial for the same offense.
L.A. prosecutors, however, filed a document in court last week, arguing that that defense wouldn’t apply to Miura’s case because the charges filed against him in Japan and the U.S. were different.
Kyodo News, Japan’s biggest wire news service, reported that local prosecutors argued that Miura is charged with conspiring to kill his wife in the U.S., while he was tried for murder in Japan.
