Alaska R. Crim. P. 10

(a) Generally. Arraignment shall be conducted in open

court and shall consist of reading the indictment or information

to the defendant or stating to the defendant the substance of the

charge and calling on the defendant to plead thereto. The defendant may appear by use of telephonic or contemporaneous two-way videoconference equipment pursuant to Criminal Rules 38.1 and 38.2.

(b) Defendant’s Name.

(1) When arraigned, the defendant shall be informed of

the name which appears in the indictment or information.

(2) The defendant shall then be given the opportunity to

declare the defendant’s true name.

(i) If the defendant states that another name is the

defendant’s true name, the court shall direct entry thereof to be

made in the record. Subsequent proceedings on the indictment

or information shall be had against the defendant by both the

declared true name and the name which appears on the

indictment or information.

(ii) If the defendant declares no other name to be the

defendant’s true name, the case against the defendant shall

proceed under the name which appears in the indictment or

information.

(c) Peremptory Disqualification of the Judge. At the

arraignment any defendant who has waived counsel shall be

advised that the defendant may peremptorily disqualify the

judge to whom the defendant’s case has been assigned on the

grounds that the defendant believes the defendant cannot

obtain a fair and impartial trial before that judge. In any court

in the state where a master calendar system has been adopted, a

defendant who has waived counsel shall be advised at the

arraignment that the defendant may give notice of change of

judge under Rule 25 (d).