When the state Supreme Court granted a hearing to examine whether corruption in the Luzerne County Courthouse played a role in the judicial assignment of a defamation lawsuit, it did so to solely address that case.

And though the justices’ specially appointed hearing master, Lehigh County President Judge William H. Platt, is expected to keep narrow in his scope of review, stories from the witness stand will likely only fuel speculation about the extent and depth of the corruption in Luzerne County.

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