State v. Chardon

No. 119,464 IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KANSAS STATE OF KANSAS, Appellee, v. CHRISTIAN D. R. CHARDON, Appellant. SYLLABUS BY THE COURT 1. Generally, Kansas appellate courts do not decide moot questions or render advisory opinions. The mootness doctrine is a court policy, which recognizes that the role of the court is to determine real controversies relative to the legal rights of persons and properties which are actually involved in the particular case properly brought before it and to adjudicate those rights in such manner that the determination will be operative, final, and…