In a reversal, a district court judge in Anaconda-Deer Lodge County has unsealed most of the documents filed in the criminal case against the man accused of carrying out a shooting last month in a southwest Montana town that left four people dead.

Criminal legal experts had previously said the universal sealing of the case — including wiping the case number and the adjudicating judge from the public court filing portal — was highly unusual.

Court filings provided Tuesday to Montana Free Press through a public records request show that prosecutors have charged Michael Paul Brown with four counts of deliberate homicide. Each charge is a felony punishable by a minimum of 10 years in prison.

Documents that could contain additional details about the investigation against Brown, who lived nex

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