In re Unnamed

¶ 1. Defendant challenges his conviction for resisting arrest on the grounds that the police did not have probable cause to arrest him. We do not address defendant’s challenge as we find it is moot.

¶ 2. The mootness doctrine has its foundations in the Vermont Constitution, which “limits the authority of the courts to the determination of actual, live controversies between adverse litigants.” Holton v. Dep’t of Emp’t & Training, 2005 VT 42, ¶ 14, 178 Vt. 147, 878 A.2d 1051. An issue is moot when “the parties lack a legally cognizable interest in the outcome,” State v. Curry, 2009 VT 89, ¶ 11,…