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>
In 2012, Judge Craig and his colleague Jeff Cox and several other court officials were defendants in an unusual suit for unspecified [[grievance]]s brought by Gary Anthony Bailey, a prisoner in the Bossier Parish minimum security prison in Plain Dealing, before the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in Shreveport. Bailey sought a change of venue on grounds that he was suing his captors and could not expect a fair trial at the district court level. The federal court, however, stood with Bossier Parish officials and the matter of original jurisdiction: "Contrary to petitioner's mistaken belief, this court holds no supervisory power over state judicial proceedings and may intervene only to correct errors of constitutional dimensions."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://leagle.com/decision/In%20FDCO%2020121001361/BAILEY%20v.%20JOHNSTON|title=Bailev v. Johnston et al|publisher=leagle.com|accessdate=July 20May 29, 20152020}}</ref>
Judge Craig's decision for the defendant in ''Petchak v. The Bossier Parish Police Jury'' was overturned in 2010 by the state appeals court. Steve and Melanie Petchak sued the police jury, the parish governing board, regarding drainage, structural problems, and a sinkhole which developed on their residential property in Country Place subdivision. While Craig found no public liability on the part of the police jury in part because of a two-year statute of limitations in such matters, the appeals court sided with the [[plaintiff]]s and ordered the case remanded to Judge Craig, who was instructed to direct the police jury to make repairs to the couple's property and to pay undetermined damages. The appeals court said that the police jury had followed its statutory authority to maintain drainage on three previous occasions by filling the sinkholes reported by a previous owner and then the Petchaks. Because the police jury accepted the subdivision plat and then undertook to correct the drainage-related problems, the court held that the police jury assumed the responsibility for the defective drainage.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://casetext.com/case/petchak-v-bossier-parish-police-jury-45705-laapp-2-cir-112410|title=Petchak v. Bossier Parish Police Jury|publisher=casetext.com|date=November 24, 2010|accessdate=July 20, 2015}}</ref>