Reuters has this story about former child star/T.V. detective Robert Blake.
A California appeals court has cut in half a $30 million wrongful death judgment awarded against actor Robert Blake to the estate of his slain wife Bonny Lee Bakley, according to an unpublished opinion filed late on Friday.
Blake, who was acquitted of Bakley’s 2001 slaying in a criminal trial, had challenged the jury’s award in the subsequent civil wrongful death lawsuit, claiming the trial court made procedural errors and jurors committed misconduct.
The Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles found no jury misconduct and no reversible error by the trial court, but concluded that the $30 million in noneconomic damages awarded by the jury to Bakley’s estate was excessive.
If the administrator of Bakley’s estate, Blanchard Tual, does not consent to the reduction of the award to $15 million, the case will go back for a new trial on damages, the appeals court said.
These civil court decisions are often screwy. If, there was no jury misconduct and no reversible error by the trial court, how are the initial damages excessive? And we know, that he doesn’t have to pay it anyway, right Orenthal?
You got to see something. Take a look at this post, “Random Strange Tale”, from Oct. ‘06 to get some really interesting inside information about Bonny Lee and The Killer.
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J wrote,
Bonnie Lee took the term “Groupie” to a whole new level. Wow!
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Link | April 26th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Pribek wrote,
She was spooky man. You know, sometimes you meet someone and they just creep you out and, you can’t explain it because there is no logical reason; you just met them. I think that, especially during that period, I had developed an ability to suppress that kind of intuition or instinct, whatever it is, because I was in constant transit. If I met some freak, I wasn’t going get close to them and I was headed out of town when I got to town. But, she spooked me right when she walked in that night. So much, that I instantly recognized her from a photo on T.V. and it was at least 15 years down the road.
Link | April 26th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
J wrote,
Maybe you’re a closet psychic like the “Johnny Smith” character in Stephen King’s The Dead Zone…you can see a person’s past/future.
Now if we can only get McCain,Obama and Clinton to go to one of your gigs…
;-)
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Link | April 27th, 2008 at 7:20 am
Pribek wrote,
Closet psychic, heh heh..
Link | April 27th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Next time hide in the hedges with night vision goggles, and a mirror.
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Link | April 28th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Pribek wrote,
PD-see comment on “Random Strange Tale”
Link | April 28th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
thanks
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Link | April 29th, 2008 at 7:11 am