Why didn't D.A. Daniel Craig lead the 2008 high profile rape trial?

District Attorney (now Judge) Daniel J. Craig was "front and center" trying to convince a grand jury that a 2007 burglary case was really a rape and kidnapping case.  Even the grand jury was not impressed enough to list rape nor kidnapping as the first count.  The first count of the true bill was burglary.

It is my understanding that District Attorney (now Judge) Daniel J. Craig mislead the grand jury to believe that there was a "Rape DNA Match" where there was none.

Interestingly enough, District Attorney (now Judge) Daniel J. Craig allowed Assistant District Attorney (now D.A.) Ashley Wright to take the lead on the frivolous rape trial in 2008.  Should we ask why?  This is where the plot thickens.

Was D. A. Daniel Craig trying to informally recuse himself?

1)Did he and the alleged rape victim's extended family reside within a block from each other and had too close of a personal relationship?

or

2) Did D.A. Daniel Craig have a personal vendetta against defendant Michael Christopher Blocker based on a middle school/juvenile incident surrounding other close friends of District Attorney Daniel Craig?

or 

3) Are both scenarios possibly true?

Michael Christopher Blocker maintains that there has been a long standing conflict of interest which should have required District Attorney (now Judge) Daniel Craig to be recused from his burglary case and his rape trial.

In addition, 2007 Burglary turned rape case was so high-profiled that a change of venue should have been granted when Michael Christopher Blocker asked his public defender Hugh Hadden for this request.  Public defender Hugh Hadden failed to pursue a change of venue according to defendant Michael Christopher Blocker.

So why did District Attorney (now judge) Daniel J. Craig step back from the high profile rape trial allowing A.D.A. Ashley Wright to lead in 2008?  

If he needed to formally recuse himself, then a neighboring District Attorney from either Columbia or Burke Counties could have taken over thereby resulting in a change of venue to insure a fair trial for the defendant.  Of course, this did not happen.

I am hoping that the FBI can investigate this informal recusal or lack of formal recusal.

#exonerateMichael

Caution: Unrelated "Charge Stacking" in Augusta, Georgia

So on January 30, 2007, a grand jury of 20 peers returns a true bill for 

Burglary- first count, 

Rape-second count, and 

Kidnapping - third count.

The regional media coverage of the 2007 Walton Way Alleged Rape case must have influenced the inclusion of rape and kidnapping charges by the Grand jury when there was only "Burglary DNA" to report (No Rape DNA). 

Sgt. Richard Roundtree was listed as Prosecutor, and Daniel J. Craig was listed as District Attorney on the Indictment by the Grand Jury.

The defendant who was not present at the grand jury hearing was a repeat offender of burglary related offenses, and he would have gladly taken a plea deal for burglary only.  Such a plea bargain would have saved taxpayers a grand jury hearing as well as trial court preparation, but with what seems like little to no rape evidence, rape and kidnapping charges were still stacked on to the burglary charges.

This "charge stacking" forced the Defendant Michael C. Blocker to plead "NOT GUILTY" because he did NOT Rape nor Kidnap the victim.  He only acknowledged the Burglary.

So Why didn't the State separate the Burglary charge from the Rape and Kidnapping Charges? 

Perhaps, the community would prefer to pin a rape and kidnapping charge on a partially INNOCENT man rather than make this particular elderly woman look like she told a "partial untruth" that received regional media coverage.  Michael C. Blocker was denied a change of venue, and he was denied a fair trial.

Another unrelated Augusta, Georgia Trial case that was stacked high with charges was a 2001 Racketeering case/ "RICO" Indictment surrounding six defendants and two different crimes years apart. You can read about it here:

http://www.ucmjdefense.com/coleman17may.html

#exonerateMichael from his Life without parole sentence for a crime that he did NOT commit.