Los Angeles ? Celebrity attorney Mark Geragos said Saturday he is representing a Japanese man accused of killing his wife in Los Angeles in the 1980s and that his first goal will be to get the charges dismissed on grounds of double jeopardy.

Geragos’ client, Kazuyoshi Miura, was convicted in Japan in 1994, but the conviction was overturned on appeal. Although that trial was in Japan, Geragos said he believes U.S. law still prevents Miura from being tried again for the same crime.

Miura’s arrest last month in the U.S. territory of Saipan has created a sensation in Japan, where his case has been called that country’s equivalent to O.J. Simpson’s.

The now-60-year-old clothing importer said he and his wife were vacationing in Los Angeles in 1981 when robbers shot him in the leg and her in the head. Kazumi Miura, 28, died the following year in Japan.