Kazuyoshi Miura is being forced out of collaborating with his lawyers on strategy, tactics and overall decision making, according to assistant attorney general Jeffery L. Warfield Sr. yesterday.<\/p>\n
Warfield said the 61-year-old Miura is being stripped of the authority exercised by all clients in dealing with their attorneys\u2014the authority to make the final decision in a face-to-face relationship with his lawyer.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaintaining Miura in the CNMI is a great disservice to him, whether he realizes it or not,\u201d said the prosecutor in response to another motion to stay Miura\u2019s extradition order.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe balance of hardship tips solely to the Commonwealth, which has been forced to feed, house and guard this California prisoner,\u201d Warfield said.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, one of Miura\u2019s lawyers, Bruce Berline, filed an emergency motion asking the CNMI Supreme Court to stay Miura\u2019s extradition or his removal from Saipan to California while he pursues further proceedings in the U.S. District Court for the NMI.<\/p>\n
Berline said if the CNMI High Court does not grant a stay of extradition, their client could be extradited at any time and thus forever lose his right to appeal those issues.<\/p>\n
But in the CNMI government\u2019s opposition to the emergency motion, Warfield said the motion should be summarily denied as Miura cannot show any probability of success on the merits.<\/p>\n
Warfield said Miura\u2019s only hope of any kind of success in meeting the charges against him are in the hearings being held in California.<\/p>\n
Miura\u2019s extradition is to his benefit and causes no injury, Warfield said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn reality the cognizable hardship to petitioner is that his being maintained in the CNMI is depriving him of the opportunity to meaningfully interact with his real attorney, the one presenting his affirmative defense without being afforded the input and thinking of his client,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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