| REPORTS AND EVIDENCE |
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Bodyguard's List
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This handwritten note lists items such as a crowbar and duct tape — shopping list or murderous checklist?
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| BAKLEY'S WRITINGS AND COVERSATIONS |
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Bakley's Letters
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In these handwritten notes, Bakley urges Blake to marry her, demanding an engagement ring and explaining how only an impending marriage would cause her to give up a relationship with Christian Brando, son of actor Marlon Brando — or the money sure to be left to him by his famous father
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Phone Call Transcripts
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In these telephone conversations secretly audiotaped by Bakley, she and Blake spar over her pregnancy
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| BLAKE'S WRITINGS |
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Gun License
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Complaining of financial woes, Blake writes the Culver City police chief to surrender his gun license.
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| THE FAMILY |
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Custody Agreement
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Bonny Lee Bakley and Robert Blake agreed to marry by Nov. 2000 — but backing out would have meant losing custody.
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Wrongful Death Suit
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Suit seeks unspecified damages from Blake and Caldwell for Bakley's four children.
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| OTHER 'BARETTA' LEGAL WOES |
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The Stuntmen
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Two ex-"Baretta" stuntmen who claim Blake tried to hire them as hitmen have legal problems of their own.
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| PROSECUTION'S FILINGS |
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Death Penalty Decision
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Prosecutors issued this statement announcing they would not seek the death penalty.
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Felony Complaint
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This complaint charging Blake with murder reveals pieces of the police investigation.
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Investigator Motion
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Calling him a "material witness," prosecutors seek a ruling that would prevent William Jordan from serving as Blake's investigator.
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| CONFLICT OF INTEREST ISSUES |
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Blake's Opposition
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In response to the prosecution's request that Blake and Caldwell should be prohibited from cooperating to the point where it would pose a conflict of interest, Blake filed this document in protest.
Argues that the prosecutors have no grounds to demand that he and co-defendant Caldwell have separate investigators and defense strategies.
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Prosecution's Reply
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In answer to Blake's motion in opposition to precluding defendants from cooperation, the state criticizes the actor's motion as a "hodgepodge" of "personal insults that jumbles a host of issues and grossly misstates facts."
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Caldwell's Waiver
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Earle Caldwell says regardless of possible conflicts of interest, he wishes to stick with defense lawyer Arna Zlotnik. In the filing, Blake's bodyguard acknowledges his legal bills are being paid by Blake, and recognizes Zlotnik could be called to testify against him — but charges that possibility is "remote and contrived by the prosecution to deprive me of my counsel of choice."
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Waiver Response
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Blake is paying Caldwell's lawyer, Arna Zlotnik, claiming that as an employee he has the right to indemnify him, but prosecutors say that intereferes with the conspiracy charges they face.
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State's Defense Counsel Motion
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Charging that Caldwell's lawyer, Arna H. Zlotnik, is a witness against her own client, prosecutors ask that a hearing be held to determine whether Caldwell should get a new attorney.
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