State Prosecutors Group To Review Rockingham County Cases

By Paul Garber

Published April 9, 2018 at 12:45 PM EDT

Craig Blitzer. Photo courtesy Raleigh/Wake County CCBI

More than a dozen Rockingham County criminal cases are under scrutiny by a statewide group for prosecutors.

The cases were handled by Craig Blitzer, who resigned as district attorney last year and later pleaded guilty to failure to discharge the duties of his office. He is awaiting sentencing.

The North Carolina Conference on District Attorneys has agreed to review 16 cases Blitzer worked on from beginning to end.

They include charges of food stamp fraud, sexual misconduct by a teacher and even first-degree murder.

Legal and ethical problems have already been found in several of Blitzer's previous cases.

Interim District Attorney Jason Ramey says the caseload for the review is likely to be divided among the conference's attorneys.

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Paul Garber

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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