Miura said that he wrote letters to President Ronald Reagan and California Governor Jerry Brown and asked the two to secure Los Angeles.
[8] According to then Los Angeles District Attorney Ira Reiner, LAPD homicide detectives did not believe that Miura was the perpetrator, but rather that the events had been a "vicious...street crime".
[9] However one officer, Jimmy Sakoda, head of the Asian Crimes Squad, did not share the homicide detectives' conclusions.
[9] Miura was convicted of the murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment in Japan in 1994, upon which he promptly appealed to Tokyo High Court.
After four years of deliberation, Tokyo High Court overturned the conviction and the resulting sentence, because they were not able to identify the assailant[10] and thus could not prove conspiracy.
Miura gave up the fight to extradition [17] and was transported to Los Angeles, California, arriving in the early morning of October 10, 2008,[18] That night, according to an announcement by the police, he committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell.
[19][20] Although an independent pathologist hired by the defense attorney stated the evidence showed Miura was murdered while in jail,[21] the Los Angeles County coroner ruled that the cause of death was suicide.