In re the Personal Restraint of Markel

¶1 Petitioners Eric and Leadee Markel (Markels) seek reversal of their convictions under Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 124 S. Ct. 1354, 158 L. Ed. 2d 177 (2004), resentencing under Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296, 124 S. Ct. 2531, 159 L. Ed. 2d 403 (2004), and *265appointment of counsel at public expense. In March 1991, the Markels were each convicted by a jury on four counts of first degree rape of a child of their then five-year-old daughter, Ricki Markel. Ricki was ruled incompetent to testify at trial, and her account of the Markels’ conduct was related to the jury under the child…