In Re: Watford

PRESENT: All the Justices IN RE: ROY L. WATFORD, III OPINION BY Record No. 161187 JUSTICE CLEO E. POWELL March 1, 2018 UPON A PETITION FOR A WRIT OF ACTUAL INNOCENCE Roy L. Watford, III, (“Watford”) petitions this Court to grant a writ of actual innocence based on biological evidence pursuant to Code § 19.2-327.2 et seq. I. BACKGROUND On September 14, 1977, twelve-year-old A.C. was brought into the emergency room of the Portsmouth Naval Hospital by her mother. A.C. reported that, at around 9:30 p.m. that evening, she had been raped and sodomized. While A.C. was being treated in the Emergency…