BURBANK, California (AP) -- Jurors who found Robert Blake liable in the slaying of his wife said the tough-guy actor was his own "worst enemy" on the witness stand.In a 10-2 decision, the jury ruled Friday that Blake "intentionally caused the death" of Bonny Lee Bakley, who was gunned down May 4, 2001 outside a restaurant where the couple had just dined. Blake was ordered to pay her four children $30 million in damages.Jurors said they were swayed by the former "Baretta" star's combative attitude during his eight days of testimony, when he often railed at plaintiffs' attorney Eric Dubin, calling him "chief," "junior" or "sonny." At one point, Dubin said he felt threatened by Blake's responses.Blake also testified he regarded his slain wife with the same affection he would feel for a pet. He told the jury he urged her, "Wake up, toots," when he found her slumped and dying in the passenger seat of his car."We believe that Mr. Blake was probably his worst enemy on the stand," jury foreman Bob Horn said. (Watch what the jurors said-- 1:37)Jurors didn't indicate what specific evidence caused them to find Blake responsible for the death."In the end, the evidence that was presented really convinced the jury to the standard that we were set to," Horn said.Blake was aquitted in March in his criminal trial, when 12 jurors had to decide guilt unanimously and beyond a reasonable doubt. The civil wrongful-death case required only that nine of 12 jurors believe by a "preponderance" of the evidence that Blake was responsible for the crime.When asked whether Blake pulled the trigger, juror Tony Aldana said, "To this point, who knows. We're not sure."Blake, 72, dressed in a black suit and tie, looked down as the verdicts were read. He left court immediately.None of Bakley's four children were in the courtroom to hear the verdict. Daughter Holly Gawron said in a phone interview from Memphis, Tennessee, that she was ecstatic."It's been a nightmare, but now it's time to repair our lives and move on," said Gawron, 25, who added that the verdict was more important than the monetary award."I know there isn't any money to recover from him," Gawron said. "I'm not interested in the money."Blake's criminal attorney, M. Gerald Schwartzbach, spoke to Blake after the verdict and called him "a survivor.""He's not a quitter. He's 72 years old and he's been through hell for four years," Schwartzbach said in a phone interview. "I continue to believe in his innocence."The plaintiffs had argued that Blake either killed Bakley himself or hired someone to do so. The jury was not asked to decide which theory it believed. However, the panel decided that Blake's handyman, Earle Caldwell, was not liable in the killing.Attorney Gary Austin, who represented Caldwell, said the justice system "worked for him in the criminal case and it worked here in the civil case."Dubin contended that Blake despised Bakley, believing she trapped him into marriage by getting pregnant, and that he decided to get rid of her so he could raise his adored daughter, Rosie, by himself.Dubin used depositions from Blake, an investigator who worked for the actor and others to claim that Blake had a plan to kidnap Rosie and get Bakley arrested and jailed, and if that failed, to have Bakley killed.Blake said that on the night of the killing, he left the 44-year-old Bakley in the car while he went back inside the restaurant to retrieve a gun he carried for protection but had accidentally left in their booth. Blake said he found Bakley wounded when he went back out to the car.Blake's lawyer, Peter Ezzell, argued there were many people who wanted Bakley dead. He portrayed her as a grifter who preyed on lonely men, selling them nude pictures of herself and extracting money with promises of sex and marriage. She was on probation for fraud when Blake married her.The verdict in the Blake case follows a similar path taken with O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted at a criminal trial in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife and a friend of hers, but two years later was found responsible for the slayings in a civil case and was ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages.Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.