An attorney for a Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife murdered says his client has been found dead in an apparent suicide. Attorney Mark Geragos, who has been representing 61-year-old Kazuyoshi Miura, says prosecutors in the case called him and told him that Miura had hanged himself. District attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons confirmed that Miura was found dead after being notified by police. Miura arrived in Los Angeles on Friday after a trip from the U.S. commonwealth of Saipan, where he had been held since his February arrest on a 1988 Los Angeles County warrant alleging murder and conspiracy. Miura was accused of plotting to have his wife killed during a visit the couple made to Los Angeles in 1981. |