Based on that review, the master was to report his findings and recommendations to the court within 120 days.[9] After entering two interim recommendations to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and after a thorough review of the records and numerous transcripts of proceedings before Judge Ciavarella dating to 2003, the master recommended that all adjudications and dispositions of juveniles in that court be vacated.[10] The master cited a “thorough and almost Herculean review” of records in… [read post]