Lawyer: Blake's Wife Victim of Conspiracy
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Robert Blake's lawyer claims newly discovered evidence points to a conspiracy among friends of Christian Brando to murder Blake's wife, who taunted Brando with a picture of the baby he thought was his but turned out to be Blake's.
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Robert Blake murdered his wife after two stuntmen he solicited refused to commit the crime, a prosecutor told jurors Monday in opening statements for the actor's trial.
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VAN NUYS, Calif.  - A stuntman who worked closely  with Robert Blake told a court on Wednesday that the actor  asked him to kill his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, seven weeks  before police say Blake murdered her himself.
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When police responded to the scene of his wife's shooting death, Robert Blake became ill and suggested she might have been killed because she worked in the porn business, officers testified at the actor's murder trial on Wednesday.
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Prosecutors in actor Robert Blake's  murder trial can use as evidence a television interview in  which he says he had a fine relationship with the woman he is  accused of killing, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
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Jurors in Robert Blake's murder trial on Thursday saw the places he and his wife had been the night she was killed, including the restaurant booth where the actor says he went to retrieve his gun at the time Bonny Lee Bakley was shot.
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Actor Robert Blake spoke of his  desire to "annihilate" his wife Bonny Lee Bakley in the year  before she was found shot to death outside a Los Angeles  restaurant, tough-guy actor Frank Minucci told jurors in  Blake's murder trial on Tuesday.
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With a former stuntman waiting to testify that Robert Blake solicited him to kill his wife, a defense lawyer suggested in court Thursday that the witness was using illegal drugs at the time he talked to police.
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Prosecutors in Robert Blake's murder trial focused on the actor's demeanor after his wife was found dying of gunshot wounds to suggest that Blake was putting on an act.
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Police probing the murder of Robert  Blake's wife zeroed in on the actor even though there was no  evidence to show he killed her because they wanted the fame of  nabbing a celebrity, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
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Robert Blake went on trial for murder yesterday, with prosecutors saying he loathed his wife enough to kill her, while his defense countered
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Actor Robert Blake shot his wife to death because he &quot;despised&quot; her and believed she would get their young daughter involved in drugs and pornography, a prosecutor told jurors
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The night his wife was shot to death, Robert Blake said he feared he would be next and asked his lawyer if he could immediately write out a will protecting his daughter, a police detective acknowledged on the witness stand Monday.
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Ten months before his wife was killed, actor Robert Blake complained that she was an unfit mother and worked behind the scenes to get custody of the their daughter, a prosecution witness testified on Friday.
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In a pre-emptive maneuver, the prosecutor in the Robert Blake murder case warned prospective jurors Tuesday they would hear that the actor's slain wife was "not Mother Teresa" and that some people may have thought she deserved to be killed.
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An expert witness at Robert Blake's murder trial said Tuesday he could not be sure whether possible gunshot residue on the actor's hands and clothes came from firing a gun the night his wife was shot to death.
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A woman recounted Tuesday how she and her boyfriend hid by a tree and avoided intervening when Robert Blake yelled for help for his bleeding wife, telling the jury that the actor's behavior seemed "odd" and "forced."