Actor Robert Blake Depressed in LA Jail

Yahoo.com ^ | December 27, 2002 | staff

[Nonstatist]

Actor Robert Blake ( news), in jail awaiting trial on charges that he murdered his wife, worries that this may be his last Christmas on Earth, according to a television report broadcast on Thursday. Local Los Angeles station CBS2, the west coast flagship of the CBS network, said that Blake's attitudes toward life appear to have deteriorated along with his physical condition.

"This is the fourth time I have interviewed Robert Blake, the second time in jail, and definitely there is a change," said reporter Paul Dandridge, who added that the actor, now 69, is "not sure as to how much more he can last."

Dandridge said the only human contact Blake has is a once-a-week handshake from a priest who visits the actor in his jail cell.

Dandridge said Blake, the star of the television series "Baretta," told him he wondered if "this would be his last Christmas on Earth."

Blake, who is accused of shooting his wife Bonnie Lee Bakley to death while she sat in a car in May 2001, is scheduled to answer questions under oath on Jan. 15 in connection with a wrongful death lawsuit Bakley's children filed.

A preliminary hearing in the criminal case against him is set for Feb. 26.

[Destructor]

LMAO!!!

[pabianice]

I see. This is, perhaps, as opposed to "Actor Robert Blake Jubilant in Jail"?

[Age of Reason]

Something would be wrong if a jail was a happy place.

Is he in jail because he was tried and found guilty?

[Dog Gone]

No, but that's irrelevant to my observation. He's not entitled under the law to be out of jail, is he?

[BaBaStooey]

Once again, I would like to state how i feel on the death penalty. If this isn't a clear example of how life in prison can be a fate worse than death, I'm not sure what is. Jail shouldn't be a nice place. natural conception until natural death all he way.

[Age of Reason]

He's not entitled under the law to be out of jail, is he?

Innocent until proven guilty, remember?

[Dog Gone]

That has nothing to do with whether someone is entitled to be released from jail on bail, remember?

[Nonstatist]

Is he in jail because he was tried and found guilty?

He's in jail because he would flee if he was let out. Good enough reason for you?

[Age of Reason]

That has nothing to do with whether someone is entitled to be released from jail on bail, remember?

Perhaps laws about jailing suspects are bad laws, as they seem to violate the principle of innocent until proven guilty.

If they would empty the jails of all the drug addicts, then maybe our "justice" system could afford to treat suspects of violent crimes more humanely and grant them faster trials.

[Age of Reason]

He's in jail because he would flee if he was let out. Good enough reason for you?

No.

[Dog Gone]

I agree with your last statement, but there are some people who must be jailed before trial, or they would never show up for trial, or they simply pose an unacceptable threat to the community. There would be little point in even bothering to arrest them if they couldn't be held.

[Nonstatist]

Loosening up bond requirements and restraining judges discretion would certainly reduce the backlog on the bench and clear out some room in the jailhouse! What a brilliant idea! You must be a leftist.

[Age of Reason]

And another thing: I seem to remember that in Ancient Rome a patriarch had the power of life and death over all his offspring; it was no affair of the state how he ruled his family.

(Though I am not sure that Blake would qualify as the patriarch in his family.)

This is not as strange an idea as it might first appear if we consider the male head of a family as king of his own land and offspring--the ruler of his own little country.

Just another way of looking at things, is all.

[Age of Reason]

Well, true, true, true.

But if our justice system were not so overburdened with drug addicts and other mentally ill non-violent people, we'd have more money to treat suspects more humanely, and perhaps more resources to more easily track down any who might flee bail.

Just a thought.

I am otherwise a great believer in severe punishment for those who are judged guilty of the more heinous crimes.

As for drugs: We should legalize drugs and the government should give them away for free.

That will put the drug gangsters out of business.

As for any addicts: Let the drug addicts die in the streets for all I care.


Darwin at work.

[Age of Reason]

You must be a leftist.

NO.

I'm something altogether different.

I don't blindly adhere to some ideology; rather I recognize that political ideas are solutions to problems.

I believe that if one wants to avoid an unpleasant solution, then one must first try to avoid creating the problem that requires the unpleasant solution.

For example, if the problem were that you and I and others were adrift in a lifeboat, then a temporary form of communism might be one solution to our plight, where we all share equally in the supplies of food and water and ownership of the lifeboat.

If you don't want to live like that, then avoid icebergs.

In warfare, an army organized on less than democratic principles is a better idea than one where the soldiers vote for who their officers will be.

Different situation demand different kinds of governing.

[chiefqc]

After much thought I've come to the foLLowing decision:

I COULD CARE LESS. IF YOU CAN'T DO THE TIME, DON'T DO THE CRIME. SUFFER YOU STUPID AS*HOLE

[Oztrich Boy]

From everything I've heard about this case; He's guilty.

And from everything I've heard about this case; the prosecution jumped the gun, and arrested the "obvious" suspect in the hope that they would *later* be able to build the case.