Legal Opinion
In Re: Watford
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided March 1, 2018No. Record 161187PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY JUSTICE CLEO E. POWELL
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 *653 sodomized. While A.C. was being treated in the Emergency Room, a Physical Evidence Recovery Kit ("PERK") was administered. In a document titled "Doctor's Report of Alleged Rape" (the…
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