Federal Judge Harold Baer has removed himself from the case that landed him at the center of a national controversy. The judge's decision to throw out $4 million worth of narcotics seized from a defendant's car was criticized by President Clinton and politicans from both parties. The judge later reversed himself, allowing the narcotics evdience to be used at trial. In this opinion and order, he denied a defense motion that he recuse himself, and then recused himself.
