Justice Schack: ‘I’d rather handle killers than divorcing couples’
“People say I should write a book on what I’ve seen,” New York State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Schack said.
He has seen plenty.
Schack, who has been on the bench in Brooklyn for 14 years, has resided over thousands of criminal and civil cases. Over the nearly decade and a half he has sat on the bench, Schack has dealt with everything from lawsuits over car accidents to whether to commit a mentally disturbed person to banks seeking to foreclose on homeowners.
Schack candidly admitted to members of the Dyker Heights Civic Association Tuesday night that there’s one type of case he would hate to preside over. “I’d rather deal with murder trials than matrimonial cases,” he said. Divorce cases, which can often get nasty between the bitter, warring spouses, are not his cup of tea, the justice said. “It’s very hard to deal with matrimonials,” he said, adding that the cases involve raw human emotions, like hate.