1, Lori Moore, said, "We just didn't have enough evidence to say whether or not he did it."ĭuring their deliberations, the jury asked to rehear testimony from three witnesses who saw Blake within 10 to 15 minutes of Bakley's shooting death, as well as testimony from Ronald "Duffy" Hambleton, a stuntman who claims Blake asked him to "snuff" his wife. "There was no, no blood on the clothing there was nothing." "You couldn't put the gun in his hand," Nicholson said. 5, foreman Thomas Nicholson, called the case "flimsy" and "disjointed." Speaking to reporters after the verdict, the panelists cited a lack of direct evidence and credibility issues with the prosecution's key witnesses in explaining their decision. Jurors received the case Friday, March 4, and deliberated for about 35 hours over nine days before reaching their decision Wednesday afternoon. He sighed and wept heavily, hugged his defense lawyer, and then sat trembling at the defense table before he was allowed to leave the courtroom.īonny Lee Bakley's daughter, Holly Gawron, broke down in tears when the verdict was read, and did not stop crying even as the courtroom was cleared.īlake, who has been under house arrest throughout the 10-week trial, did not take the stand in his defense. The 71-year-old actor would have faced life in prison for a first-degree murder conviction.īlake, the former star of the '70s show "Baretta," broke down when hearing the verdict.
The panel also found Blake not guilty of solicitation of murder, but were unable to reach a verdict on a second solicitation count, which was subsequently dismissed. "It don't feel bad," Blake said, when asked how freedom felt. Outside the courthouse, Blake borrowed a pair of cutters from a camera man, sliced off the electronic monitor that had been strapped around his right ankle, and handed it to his attorney, who held it up in a victory gesture.
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VAN NUYS, California (Court TV) - Robert Blake walked out of court a free man Wednesday after a jury acquitted him of the murder of Bonny Lee Bakley, his wife of six months and the mother of his 4-year-old daughter.
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