Judge agrees to unseal most docs in Anaconda homicide case
District Court Judge Jeffrey Dahood on Tuesday ordered the unsealing of almost all charging documents in the state’s homicide case against Michael Paul Brown, who is charged with fatally shooting four people in Anaconda last summer. Only one document, which a press release from the Montana Freedom of Information Coalition identified as a mental health evaluation, will remain sealed.
Media organizations including Montana Free Press in January sought to intervene in the criminal case against Brown, arguing that Dahood had improperly sealed the case’s documents and proceedings in August without allowing the media the opportunity to object. Dahood rejected the request to intervene, writing that the organizations “provided no authority to establish why they would have standing in this case.”
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