Woodard v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice NOBLE.

Richard Woodard, III, was charged in two indictments with thirty-one sex crimes and four counts of Complicity to Use of a Minor in a Sexual Performance, involving four victims under the age of sixteen. His girlfriend and co-defendant, Lori Franklin, was charged in two indictments with twenty sex crimes and three counts of Use of a Minor in a Sexual Performance.

Woodard was acquitted on seven sex crimes, convicted of twenty-four sex crimes and convicted of all four complicity crimes. In a somewhat unusual judgment, he was sentenced to ten years on one count…