Personal Restraint Petition Of Calvin Artie Eagle

Trickey, A.C.J.

¶1 Calvin Artie Eagle filed this personal restraint petition challenging his convictions of one count of first degree rape of a child and two counts of second degree rape of a child. He claims that the trial court violated his federal and state constitutional rights to an open and public trial when it arraigned him on an amended information in chambers prior to trial. He also claims that his appellate counsel was constitutionally ineffective for failing to raise this claim on direct appeal.

¶2 We hold that the in-chambers arraignment on the amended information violated Eagle’s…