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MATTER OF COMMITMENT OF J.W.K.

No. 2017AP1574.

927 N.W.2d 509 (2019)

2019 WI 54

In the MATTER OF the Mental COMMITMENT OF J.W.K.: Portage County, Petitioner-Respondent, v. J.W.K., Respondent-Appellant-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed: May 21, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the respondent-appellant-petitioner, there were briefs filed by Katie R. York , assistant state public defender. There was an oral argument by Katie R. York.

For the petitioner-respondent, there was a brief filed by Briana L. Sweeney and Interim Deputy Corporation Counsel, Stevens Point. There was an oral argument by Briana L. Sweeney.

¶1 An issue is moot when its resolution will have no practical effect on the underlying controversy. In this review of a Chapter 51 recommitment order, we consider whether J.W.K.'s sufficiency-of-the-evidence challenge to the 2016 order extending his commitment is rendered moot because the 2016 order expired after...

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