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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>

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=May 29, 2020}}</ref>

Judge Craig sentenced James Everett Watson to twenty years imprisonment for having in 2010 sold $50 worth of [[methamphetamine]]s to an undercover police officer. Watson appealed to the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit in Shreveport on grounds that the sentence was "excessive," that his age of sixty years at the time called for a lighter punishment, and that his most recent [[felony]] had been a decade earlier. The appeals court sided with Judge Craig on the premise that the sentence "does not shock the sense of justice. ... and is not excessive for a [[defendant]] with his horrendous track record."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.justia.com/cases/louisiana/second-circuit-court-of-appeal/2011/46-572-ka-1.html|title=Appeal of State of Louisiana v. James Everett Watson|date=2011|publisher=law.justia.com|accessdate=May 29, 2020}}</ref>  

Judge Craig sentenced James Everett Watson to twenty years imprisonment for having in 2010 sold $50 worth of [[methamphetamine]]s to an undercover police officer. Watson appealed to the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit in Shreveport on grounds that the sentence was "excessive," that his age of sixty years at the time called for a lighter punishment, and that his most recent [[felony]] had been a decade earlier. The appeals court sided with Judge Craig on the premise that the sentence "does not shock the sense of justice. ... and is not excessive for a [[defendant]] with his horrendous track record."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.justia.com/cases/louisiana/second-circuit-court-of-appeal/2011/46-572-ka-1.html|title=Appeal of State of Louisiana v. James Everett Watson|date=2011|publisher=law.justia.com|accessdate=May 29, 2020}}</ref>