Kinsky v. Steiger

LAWRENCE E. MOONEY, Chief Judge.

Carol Steiger, the circuit clerk of Ste. Genevieve County, appeals the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Carl Kinsky, the same county’s prosecutor, requiring that the clerk provide a copy of a trial transcript to the prosecutor. Because we find this case to be moot and not within the “public interest” exception to the mootness doctrine, the appeal is dismissed.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Kinsky, as prosecutor, asked that Steiger, as circuit clerk, provide him with a copy of a trial transcript from a court file within her custody. The clerk…