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IN RE LETTERS ROGATORY FROM TOKYO DIST. PROS. OFF.

Nos. 92-55856, 92-56217.

16 F.3d 1016 (1994)

In re LETTERS ROGATORY FROM THE TOKYO DISTRICT PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE, TOKYO, JAPAN. Yoshikuni OKUBO; Kazuyoshi Miura, Appellants, v. Carolyn M. REYNOLDS, Assistant United States Attorney and Co-Commissioner; Louis K. Ito, Assistant District Attorney and Co-Commissioner, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided February 15, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerson S. Horn, Beverly Hills, California, for the appellants.

Carolyn M. Reynolds, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Angeles, California, for the appellees.

Before: FLETCHER, PREGERSON, and NORRIS, Circuit Judges.

WILLIAM A. NORRIS, Circuit Judge:

In 1981, Kazumi Miura, a Japanese citizen, was murdered while vacationing in Los Angeles. Suspicion eventually settled on her husband, Kazuyoshi Miura, who allegedly hired an associate, Yoshikuni Okubo, to murder Miura's wife in order to collect insurance proceeds.

In May 1988, the Tokyo District Prosecutor's Office began a criminal investigation of appellants, Miura and Okubo, and requested assistance from the United States...

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