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BLAKE TOOK GUN-RESIDUE TEST FRIDAY.


Byline: Beth Barrett and Orith Goldberg Staff Writers

STUDIO CITY - Actor Robert Blake Robert Blake may be:
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 willingly took a gun residue test Friday night after his wife of four months, Bonny Bonny (bŏn`ē), town, SE Nigeria, in the Niger River delta, on the Bight of Biafra. In the 18th and 19th cent., Bonny was the center of a powerful trading state, and in the 19th cent. it became the leading site for slave exportation in W Africa.  Lee Bakley, was shot in the head and killed near a Studio City restaurant, his attorney said Monday.

``Of course he gave it to them the very night of the killing,'' said attorney Harland Braun, adding he expects the test - used to determine whether a person has recently fired a gun - would be negative.

The tests would ``absolutely not'' link Blake, 67, to the Studio City crime, Braun said.

Braun said Blake is innocent, even as he ``fits the picture'' of a person homicide homicide (hŏm`əsīd), in law, the taking of human life. Homicides that are neither justifiable nor excusable are considered crimes. A criminal homicide committed with malice is known as murder, otherwise it is called manslaughter.  investigators would typically want to question. Blake - who portrayed the tough, 1970s detective ``Baretta'' - was the last person seen with Bakley, and the two had a troubled relationship.

``This may be one of those Hollywood unsolved cases,'' he said.

Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  police Officer Haley Purece said Monday that Blake was interviewed by police Saturday and was released.

``At this time he is not accused of anything,'' she said.

Police did obtain a search warrant for his Studio City home and investigators went through it this weekend.

Results of Sunday's autopsy that determined the cause of death of the 44-year-old Bakley were placed on a security hold Monday at the request of homicide detectives, coroner's spokesman Scott Carrier Scott Carrier is an American author and radio producer. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Written work
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 said.

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Detectives were looking for Looking for

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 evidence at a construction site two blocks from the restaurant where Blake had returned Friday night to retrieve a gun he had left inside. He had the gun, which he had a permit for, at his wife's request, Braun said.

When Blake returned to his black Dodge Stealth in the 11400 block of Woobridge Street, he discovered his bloodied wife and ran for help.

Braun said Bakley had been in fear, though she never identified a specific person she feared. The couple apparently felt confident enough to go out for the evening with the gun tucked in the actor's waistband.

``You know, there are all different kinds of people in the world,'' Braun said.

Blake obtained a concealed-weapon permit in 1991 from Culver City Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers.  and had received extensions every two years, Culver City police Lt. Dave Tankenson said. No other information on the permit was released but police said individuals are allowed to have up to four weapons on a permit.

Braun said private investigator Scott Ross Scott Ross may refer to the following:
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 more information to suggest Bakley's fears might have been well-founded - though nothing that's proved conclusive. He said all pertinent information is being turned over to police.

In particular, Braun said, a number of letters have been found from people Bakley supposedly ``conned'' out of money.

``She'd been in the business of conning lovelorn men out of money for years,'' he said.

Bakley had a criminal background, having been sentenced in 1996 to ``criminal simulation'' in Arkansas.

In addition to urging Blake to carry a gun, Bakley hadn't wanted her car to be visible and had reported someone in front of the house on several occasions, he said.

``It was clear she was afraid of someone,'' Braun said.

On Monday, Bakley's mother, Marjorie Carlyon of Tennessee, said her daughter was a very generous person, adding: ``I feel she is at peace.''

She said her daughter had changed her name to ``Leebonny'' because the family had a tradition of going by their middle names.

Carlyon said she could not comment further because she had an ``exclusive'' with the ``Inquirer in·quire   also en·quire
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.''

As police investigators sifted through evidence searching for clues and an ``emotionally exhausted'' Blake spent the day with friends, his attorney and a private investigator continued to piece together their version of events.

Braun stressed again that the couple's marriage was not ``a normal relationship,'' and only came about after DNA tests DNA test nDNS-Test m  showed Blake was the father of their child. Blake originally believed Marlon Brando's son, Christian, was the father.

``It was not that kind of loving relationship,'' Braun said of the couple, who lived in separate quarters on the same lot. ``It was co-existence.''

Nor did Blake think of everything when he left his wife in the car after dark - despite her urging him to carry a gun for protection, Braun said. The actor said he went back alone to Vitello's Restaurant to retrieve the gun he'd left under a sweat shirt in the restaurant booth, only to return to find his wife dead about 9:40 p.m.

``It's not like he was in the Secret Service,'' Braun said.

``He gets in the car, remembers he left the gun in the booth and he reacted quickly. You don't want to leave a loaded gun in a booth in a restaurant.''

Braun called inconclusive INCONCLUSIVE. What does not put an end to a thing. Inconclusive presumptions are those which may be overcome by opposing proof; for example, the law presumes that he who possesses personal property is the owner of it, but evidence is allowed to contradict this presumption, and show who is  reports that Blake apparently wasn't noticed returning to the restaurant before he burst in hysterically hys·ter·i·cal  
adj.
1. Of, characterized by, or arising from hysteria.

2. Having or prone to having hysterics.

3. Informal Extremely funny: told a hysterical story.
 to report his wife had been killed.

``The fact no one sees him doesn't mean anything,'' he said.

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