Actor Blake found liable in 2001 slaying of wife
Posted on: Friday, 18 November 2005, 16:15 CST
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Eight months after actor Robert Blake was acquitted of criminal murder charges in the shooting death of his wife, a civil court jury on Friday found him liable for her slaying in a wrongful death suit brought by her children and ordered him to pay $30 million in damages.
The ruling capped eight days of deliberations in an 11-week civil trial. The 72-year-old former star of the 1970s TV detective show "Baretta" was ordered to pay the damages for for the death of his spouse, Bonny Lee Bakley.
Blake's co-defendant in the case, former bodyguard and handyman Earle Caldwell, was cleared of allegations in the lawsuit that he conspired with the actor to kill his wife.
Source: REUTERS
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