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Jurors continue deliberations in Robert Blake trial

(Los Angeles, California-AP) March 10, 2005 - Jurors in the Robert Blake murder trial have ended their fifth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.

The panel in Los Angeles will continue deliberating the case Friday. Blake is accused of killing his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, who was shot in his car near his favorite Italian restaurant in 2001.

Blake has maintained that someone else killed Bakley when he left her briefly in the car to retrieve a gun he'd left behind during dinner. That gun wasn't used to kill Bakley.

Blake is charged with murder, two counts of solicitation of murder, and a special circumstance of lying in wait. If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison.

Posted 11:05pm by Chantelle Janelle