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Line 34: − Until 2015, when he was replaced by colleague Mike Nerren, Craig had been the judge of the Bossier Parish Drug Court. Sixteen clients graduated from the anti-addiction program in November 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ladcp.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/LADCP-45.pdf|title=Bossier City Courts|page=4|publisher=Louisiana Association of Drug Court Professionals|date=February 2015|accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref>+
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===Key cases===
Craig was the judge of the Bossier Parish Drug Court until 2015, when he was replaced by colleague Mike Nerren. Sixteen clients graduated from the anti-addiction program in November 2014.<ref>"Bossier City Court," Louisiana Association of Drug Court Professionals, February 2015.</ref>
Elected on a pledge of stiffer sentences, Judge Craig in 2009 gave the defendant Randall Wayne Rockett twenty-five years at hard labor for causing an automobile accident while under the use of [[alcohol]]. It was Rockett's fourth such offense. The defendant pleaded guilty to avoid habitual offender status. Judge Craig found Rockett to be a danger to himself as well as the public. The appeals court upheld the sentence in 2011 as "neither disproportionate nor shocking to the sense of justice."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.justia.com/cases/louisiana/second-circuit-court-of-appeal/2011/46-404-ka-1.html|title=Appeal of State of Louisiana v. Randall Wayne Rockett|date=2011|publisher=law.justia.com|accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref>
Elected on a pledge of stiffer sentences, Judge Craig in 2009 gave the defendant Randall Wayne Rockett twenty-five years at hard labor for causing an automobile accident while under the use of [[alcohol]]. It was Rockett's fourth such offense. The defendant pleaded guilty to avoid habitual offender status. Judge Craig found Rockett to be a danger to himself as well as the public. The appeals court upheld the sentence in 2011 as "neither disproportionate nor shocking to the sense of justice."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.justia.com/cases/louisiana/second-circuit-court-of-appeal/2011/46-404-ka-1.html|title=Appeal of State of Louisiana v. Randall Wayne Rockett|date=2011|publisher=law.justia.com|accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref>