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Manglona grants Miura another extension
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Posted on May 02 2008
Superior Court Associate Judge Ramona V. Manglona yesterday vacated her earlier order that set the briefing schedule for Japanese businessman Kazuyoshi Miura to file his petition for habeas corpus.
Manglona issued the decision after Miura’s counsel, Bruce Berline, and chief prosecutor Jeffery L. Warfield Sr. signed yesterday a stipulation for Miura to get another extension to file the petition.
In granting the stipulation, the judge ordered that the hearing on the petition for habeas corpus, presently set for May 28, 2008 at 1:30pm, is taken off calendar.
Manglona instead changed the May 28 hearing on the petition to a regular status conference.
The judge ordered the parties in the case to appear on May 18 at 1:30pm for the status conference.
On Thursday, Berline’s co-counsel, Mark Hanson, disclosed to Saipan Tribune that they want another extension to file the petition for habeas corpus in challenging the extradition case filed against Miura.
Hanson said they wanted to see the outcome of the California hearing that was set for May 9.
Last March 19, Manglona granted Miura’s request for a month to file the petition for habeas corpus. The judge gave Miura’s counsel no later than April 10 to file the petition.
Berline and Warfield, however, later agreed to request the court to extend the briefing schedule for the petition, opposition and reply.
The parties requested that the petition be due on or before May 2, 2008. Manglona granted the request on April 17.
The 60-year-old Miura was arrested by Saipan authorities at the Saipan International Airport on Feb. 22 in connection with the murder of his wife, Kazumi Miura, in L.A. in 1981.
Miura had already been convicted in Japan in 1994 of the crime. The verdict, however, was overturned by Japan’s high court 10 years ago.
