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NY TIMES - 1100 CASES FROM JAILED SUPREME COURT JUSTICE GARSON

NY TIMES


October 12, 2004, Tuesday


By LESLIE EATON (NYT); Metropolitan Desk
“DISPLAYING ABSTRACT -

State Supreme Court Justice Gerald P Garson, former Brooklyn matrimonial judge, has pleaded not guilty to bribery charges and is awaiting trial; court officials say Garson granted over 1,100 divorces in his five years on bench; there has been no wholesale re-examination of Garson's cases; Administrative Judge Jacqueline W Silbermann has reopened only three of those cases so far; even in cases that involved Garson and Paul Siminovsky, lawyer who testified that he paid off Garson, rulings have not necessarily been scrutinized or overturned…”

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