Can somebody explain what a “special master” is to us non lawyer types?
I will give you an example. Suppose a criminal lawyer is murdered. The police want to investigate but the late lawyer has a lot of information about his clients that those clients do not want the police looking at. The court system appoints a special master who is supposed to separate legitimate evidence about the murder from other records, recordings, videos , etc. that would incriminate, make a legal defense difficult, or embarrass those innocent of the murder.