Court Denies Blake’s Request for Bail Hearing
A state appeals court Tuesday denied actor Robert Blake’s request that a bail hearing be ordered and his murder charge reduced.
Blake, 68, has been held without bail in Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles since his April 18 arrest in the murder of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. She was fatally shot in Blake’s car near a Studio City restaurant in May 2001.
Defense attorneys Paul L. Hoffman and Harland W. Braun had asked the 2nd District Court of Appeal to order the trial judge to conduct a bail hearing for Blake.
The actor, who starred in the 1970s television series “Baretta,” has pleaded not guilty to murder, two counts of soliciting murder and conspiracy with the special-circumstance allegation of lying in wait.
If convicted, he faces life in prison without parole.
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