Robert Blake Murder Case Gets Underway in LA
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About 3 1/2 years after the wife of  tough guy actor Robert Blake was murdered, prosecutors finally  make their case on Monday to show he killed her out of hatred,  while his lawyers vow to prove Blake innocent by showing that  Bonny Lee Bakley had many enemies.
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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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Prosecutors in actor Robert Blake's murder case are given permission to use a TV interview in which they claim he lied.
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While other celebrity trials attract attention, Robert Blake, the B-list actor who is accused of killing his wife, has had his trial relegated to relative obscurity.
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The clothes that actor Robert Blake had on when his wife was fatally shot sat uncovered in a patrol car two days before an investigator took them in for testing, an investigator testified.
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Two regulars at the restaurant where Robert Blake ate his last meal with his wife testified that the actor appeared nervous, agitated and "was messing with his hair a lot" shortly before she was killed.
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VAN NUYS, Calif.  - 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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Robert Blake's lawyers are looking for jurors who love a good mystery and may be open to conspiracy theories while prosecutors are seeking conservative, common sense people who make quick decisions, according to legal experts.
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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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Actor Robert Blake, due to stand trial charged with his wife&#39;s murder, was a child star who grew into a series of &quot;tough guy&quot; roles.
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Actor Robert Blake's behavior  seemed unnatural on the night his wife was shot to death, a  witness testified at the "Baretta" star's murder trial on  Tuesday.
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Prospective jurors in the murder trial of actor Robert Blake were asked Monday if they could endure the public scrutiny that surrounded the O.J. Simpson and Scott Peterson cases.
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(CBS/AP) The tale of an aging actor and the starstruck con artist he married will take center stage Monday as jurors hear opening arguments in the murder case against Robert Blake for the 2001 death of his wife.
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VAN NUYS, Calif.  - Actor Robert Blake wept loudly  in court on Monday moments after a prosecutor rested the  state's murder case against him by playing secretly made  jailhouse recordings in which Blake referred to his slain  wife's family as "monsters."
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A retired homicide detective told a  court on Thursday that actor Robert Blake asked him to help  kidnap or kill the woman Blake is charged with murdering, his  wife of six months Bonnie Lee Bakley.
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Robert Blake, shown here in a recent court appearance, insists he was not involved in his wife&#39;s shooting death. (AP Photo). By BRYAN ROBINSON.
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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.