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Most of us have an opinion about Robert Blake's culpability in his ex-wife's death, but trial prosecutors "couldn't put the gun in his hand" (in the words of a Blake trial juror) and that's the name of that tune. For a reason that had nothing to do with the case, a part of me that felt glad when I read of his acquittal yesterday. I used to tool around on a scooter when I first came to L.A. in '83, and one day it was stolen. I reported the loss to the cops right away, and a few hours later an officer called to say it had been found in Studio City. I was told where to go to pick it up (i.e., a location on the concrete L.A. river bed near Magnolia), and when I got there I saw two uniformed cops approaching from a couple hundreds yards away with a much shorter civilian walking between them. The civilian was Blake -- he was the one who had spotted the abandoned scooter and made the call.
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