Robert Blake Passes at 89
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Llynn
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RIP Little Beaver
Alligatorob
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The truth is that he committed the perfect murder.
GAlady
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- Georgia USA
I loved him in his show, “Baretta”.
Alligatorob
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Not too perfect, he was acquitted in the criminal trial, but not civil, ended up losing all his money, but stayed out of jail:
On November 18, 2005, Blake was found liable for the wrongful death of his wife in a civil trial. Bakley's three eldest children had sued him, asserting that he was responsible for their mother's death. The trial included a famous Perry Mason moment when Eric Dubin, the attorney for Bakley's family, called the girlfriend of Blake's longtime bodyguard and co-defendant Earle Caldwell to the stand and asked if she believed they were involved in the crime, something no one had asked her before. "Dead silence filled the court," Dubin recalled. "Tears filled her eyes as she paused for what seemed like a decade, then leaned into the microphone and said that yes, she did believe that they were involved."[23] The jury ordered Blake to pay $30 million.
In 2006, Blake filed for bankruptcy, with debts of $3 million for unpaid legal fees as well as state and federal taxes. On April 9, 2010, the state of California filed a tax lien against Blake for $1,110,878 in unpaid back taxes.
On April 26, 2008, an appeals court upheld the civil case verdict, but cut Blake's penalty assessment in half, to $15 million. Blake's attorneys had protested that jurors improperly discussed the Michael Jackson and O. J. Simpson verdicts during deliberations of his case, but the appeals judge ruled that such discussions were not improper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonny_Lee_Bakley
Moon Rat
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We all like to think the best about people, but I have to agree with the op on this one. I followed the case fairly close and I kept asking myself, “If not Blake, then who?” I thought the Prosecutor presented a pretty air tight case. Blake kept trying to push it onto her bodyguard, but he was cleared, not once, but twice. Could it have been that there were just too many Robert Blake fans on the Jury?
