A federal judge who oversaw the successful prosecution of one of Washington, D.C.’s most violent drug gangs says he cannot be impartial in considering the gang leaders’ request for a new trial.

U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, who also presides over the government’s antitrust suit against the Microsoft Corp., has stepped down from the ongoing saga of the Newton Street Crew.

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