No evidence on Robert Blake's clothing

Actor Robert Blake walks outside Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA- An expert witness said Friday he could not find any blood on the clothing that actor Robert Blake wore the night his wife was shot to death. Rod Englert, a crime scene reconstructionist, testified he was asked to analyse Blake's clothes and those of Bonny Lee Bakley to determine the blood patterns that were left by two gunshot wounds to her head and shoulder. He said he did numerous tests on the actor's clothes, including spraying them with a chemical called Luminol, and found not a speck of blood on his T-shirt, jeans, boots, socks or belt. In the case of Bakley, Englert said he found blood consistent with the gunshot wounds and said he believed one of her arms was raised when she was shot. He also said the interior of the car in which she was sitting had numerous blood stains. In order for blood to be transferred to the clothing of a killer, "the shooter would have had to be right on top of her," Englert said. A medical examiner has testified that the shooter was perhaps one to two feet away from Bakley when the gun was fired. Jurors listened attentively to the first testimony after they toured the crime scene late Thursday. They had a chance to examine a duplicate of the car where Bakley was shot on May 4, 2001. Arriving in the neighbourhood around 8 p.m., jurors spent more than an hour marching up and down streets, peering into a car resembling the one Blake parked near the restaurant that night and examining the same trash bin where the gun used to kill Bakley was found. Bundled up in hats and coats, many jurors stopped to take notes, walking under street lights to see to write. Blake was present with his lawyers, but stood off to the side and watched sombrely as the procession began and ended. TV cameras were held back and neighbourhood streets were blocked off to accommodate the tour. Blake, 71, is on trial on charges of murder, soliciting others to commit a murder and lying in wait.-Linda Deutsch.

Campbell gives fashionistas an eyeful

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Wardrobe malfunction or fashion statement? That's what Brazilians were left wondering Thursday, a day after top model Naomi Campbell paraded with her breasts bared at Fashion Rio -- a weeklong event of fall/winter collections, which ends Friday. Campbell kicked off the fashion show for the TNG label in a simple white flower print dress, topped with a white mink stole. But less than halfway down the runway, the sleeveless deep V-neck dress proved more revealing than perhaps designer Tito Bessa had intended. It wasn't clear if a strap or button had come undone or whether it simply fit Campbell loosely.