Former television star Robert Blake was arrested on April 18, 2002, and charged with murder in the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. Because the charge included special circumstances of lying in wait, a capital offense in California, he was denied a bail hearing prior to his preliminary hearing, scheduled towards the end of the year. Since prosecutors had already announced that they would not seek the death penalty, Blake's defense attorney, who had previously alleged that he had been arrested as a publicity boost for the city's outgoing......

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