All legal documents in the court case of the man accused of shooting and killing four Anaconda residents at a bar in early August have been sealed from public view, according to the Anaconda-Deer Lodge clerk of district court, a move that legal experts have cast as highly unusual.

The suspect’s name, Michael Paul Brown, was not listed Tuesday or Wednesday in relation to any case in the public court system for Anaconda-Deer Lodge District Court. Asked in phone calls and emails from Montana Free Press to confirm the county in which the case was proceeding and why the case was not visible, Anaconda-Deer Lodge Clerk of Court Jodi Lechman repeatedly said that everything related to the case is sealed.

No local officials or parties familiar with the case reached by MTFP on Wednesday would say

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