Twenty-seven years ago, Kazuyoshi Miura and his wife were shot in a Los Angeles car park. He was shot in the leg. She was shot in the head. Miura accompanied his injured wife back to Japan where she died a year later from her injuries. Naturally, the media was outraged that the couple had been so cruelly victimized in LaLa Land.

But then evidence implicating Miura began to surface. He’d taken on both a mistress and a huge life-insurance policy on his wife. He’d also, it turns out, had attempted to hire a friend to attack his wife with a hammer while they were staying in a hotel.

Not surprisingly, he was arrested and, since he lived in Japan at the time, was tried there for his crimes. The trial court convicted him but the conviction was overturned on appeal because, back then, Japanese law required a confession and Miura maintained he was innocent. He wound up serving time for attempted murder in connection with the botched hit-for-hire attack.

You might think that would be the end of it, but you’d be wrong.

Miura, it turns out, mentioned on his blog that he planned to do some business travel to a U.S. territory… where he’d never been tried for his crime. Not surprisingly, his lawyer advised against such travel but Miura didn’t listen. Now he’s facing trial for murder in the U.S. and here the Japanese court action doesn’t serve to trigger double jeopardy laws.

Anyone want to bet he blows off that lawyer’s bill?

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