MATTER OF CARPEAH N.

2009-08656.

77 A.D.3d 836 (2010)

909 N.Y.S.2d 374

In the Matter of CARPEAH N., Appellant. MID-HUDSON FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC CENTER, Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided October 19, 2010.


Ordered that the appeal is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.

The appellant was discharged from Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Center in the fall of 2009 and is no longer subject to the involuntary medication order appealed from. Accordingly, the instant appeal has been rendered academic. Contrary to the appellant's contention, the appeal does not fall within an exception to the mootness doctrine (see Matter of Hearst Corp. v Clyne, ...

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