Actor Blake's Lawyer Found Dead
July 9 -- LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) — Barry Levin, a high-profile Los Angeles defense attorney who represented actor Robert Blake in the murder investigation of Blake's wife, was found dead Saturday after an apparent suicide, a spokesman for the FBI said
Levin was found dead, slumped over the wheel of his silver Porsche, in a cemetery in west Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head, the spokesman said.
A local radio station reported that Levin, a former Los Angeles police officer and district attorney, had been diagnosed with cancer and was told recently that the disease had taken a turn for the worse.
The FBI was investigating the death because Levin, a decorated paratrooper in the Vietnam War, was found in a veterans' cemetery, federal property.
Before representing Blake, a star of the 1970s television series Baretta, Levin had defended Erik Menendez — who was convicted along with his brother Lyle of murdering their wealthy parents after two sensational trials — and an LAPD officer implicated in the city's worst police corruption scandal.
Levin was the second attorney hired by Blake to represent him in the unsolved case of his wife's May 4 murder. Blake's main attorney has been Harland Braun.
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