An indictment for first degree murder was given about a week after I was put in jail. I sat in jail for three weeks before Richard Keck, a Public Defender showed-up, by then I couldn’t disqualify Richard Savell, the judge, that seemed to appoint himself to this case.
It is evident from the summation of District Attorney Harry Davis as well as Detective Aaron Ring’s hearsay evidence presented before the jurors, that it was only hearsay evidence uncorroborated by other evidence, ie., the Alaska Department of Public Safety Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory report. When the report did come back it read the victim cannot be excluded as the sole source of DNA from stain #63-1, and also read stain 1 from the belt from Robert Duyck (#63) tested positive to a presumptive test for blood and was found to be human in origin. The presence of blood could not be confirmed. When Aaron Ring received his copy of the lab report he did not believe the report and sought from the court a body search warrant to obtain a blood sample from me. The second opinion from the crime lab mirrored the first sample which exonerated me. The District Attorney’s office, Detective Aaron Ring and the Alaska Public Defender’s Agency, all received the Alaska crime lab report, yet neither agency sought to present this piece of exculpatory evidence to the court.
The State Crime Lab Report read ‘Robert E. Duyck is excluded as a possible source of the DNA tested’.
Robert Duyck, #125199
Hudson Correctional Facility
3001 N. Juniper St
Hudson
CO 80642
U.S.A.
It is evident from the summation of District Attorney Harry Davis as well as Detective Aaron Ring’s hearsay evidence presented before the jurors, that it was only hearsay evidence uncorroborated by other evidence, ie., the Alaska Department of Public Safety Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory report. When the report did come back it read the victim cannot be excluded as the sole source of DNA from stain #63-1, and also read stain 1 from the belt from Robert Duyck (#63) tested positive to a presumptive test for blood and was found to be human in origin. The presence of blood could not be confirmed. When Aaron Ring received his copy of the lab report he did not believe the report and sought from the court a body search warrant to obtain a blood sample from me. The second opinion from the crime lab mirrored the first sample which exonerated me. The District Attorney’s office, Detective Aaron Ring and the Alaska Public Defender’s Agency, all received the Alaska crime lab report, yet neither agency sought to present this piece of exculpatory evidence to the court.
The State Crime Lab Report read ‘Robert E. Duyck is excluded as a possible source of the DNA tested’.
Robert Duyck, #125199
Hudson Correctional Facility
3001 N. Juniper St
Hudson
CO 80642
U.S.A.
| Q. | Was any evidence seized from his person? |
| A. | Yes! His clothing as well as his belt that he was wearing around his waist. |
| Q. | And does his belt appear to have any evidence upon it? |
| A. | Yes! It is a different belt, this isn’t the belt found at the house, but his own belt also appeared to have blood smeared along the inside of it. |
| Q. | And that’s been sent to the laboratory for examination? |
| A. | That’s correct. |
| Q. | Was there blood apparent on Mr. Duyck? |
| A. | The only blood we found again was on the inside surface of his belt. |
| Q. | That, of course, matched the victim right? |
| A. | No. It was just sent off, we don’t know that. |
Robert Duyck
Wrongly Convicted of Murder - 2nd Degree
Sentenced to 25 Years Imprisonment
Sentenced to 25 Years Imprisonment
The injustice that I was subjected to all started in November 1995, when while intoxicated I called 911 in Fairbanks, Alaska to turn in a body, at that time all suspicion fell on me, there was no investigation. I was interrogated and hounded by Detective Aaron Ring for a week to tell him what he wanted to hear. I was taken to jail the 1st of December 1995 (with the help of a friend, who knew the Clerk of the Court, I finally got the indictment hearing tape April 2001). The court proceedings then started, a grand jury indictment hearing was held, District Attorney Harry Davis presented the summation of the hearsay evidence before the grand jury and Detective Aaron Ring presented the hearsay evidence to the grand jury. A juror questioned Aaron Ring: