Robert Blake Acquitted
by TChris
It all came down to this:
"They couldn't put the gun in his hand," jury foreman Thomas Nicholson told reporters outside court.
And this:
The police "convicted Mr. Blake on the night of the murder, and then they conducted an incompetent investigation," defense attorney M. Gerald Schwartzbach said.
And so a jury that took seriously its oath to follow the law found reason to doubt that Robert Blake killed his wife, acquitting him of murder and of soliciting murder after nine days of deliberation. Kudos to the defense team for exposing the gaps in the prosecution's evidence.
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