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Mar 1, 2008 8:39 pm US/Pacific

Retired Cop Certain Businessman Will Be Convicted

REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (AP) ― A retired Los Angeles police detective who stayed on the trail of an infamous 1981 killing says he's confident a Japanese businessman will be convicted of the crime and sent to prison for life.

Jimmy Sakoda spent years with the LAPD and later as a district attorney's investigator trying to bring Kazuyoshi Miura to trial for the murder of his wife in downtown L.A.

The 60-year-old Miura claimed robbers shot him and his wife.

Miura was found guilty in a Japanese court but the verdict was overturned a decade ago. He was re-arrested in the American territory of Saipan a week ago and will stand trial in California for murder and conspiracy.

At a news conference Saturday, Sakoda, now 72, said he always believed Miura was the case's prime suspect.

He calls the arrest on U.S. soil after so many years "very satisfying."

(© 2010 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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