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Fact-Finding Ordered on Garson Cases

By Daniel Wise
May 07, 2004

Three divorce litigants whose cases were before indicted Brooklyn Justice Gerald P. Garson have produced enough information to justify fact-finding hearings to determine if their divorce decrees should be altered, Supreme Court Justice Jacqueline W. Silbermann ruled in a series of decisions made public March 17.

In two of the cases, Justice Silbermann, the statewide administrative judge for matrimonial matters, wrote that the hearings would examine whether there was an improper relationship between one of the attorneys and Justice Garson. In the third case, she said she would examine whether Justice Garson adequately protected the due process interests of an allegedly mentally impaired litigant.

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