In re T.S.

WIGGINS, Justice.

The appellant, T.S., appeals his involuntary commitment for chronic substance abuse. In this appeal, he claims the county attorney should not have participated in the proceeding and the juvenile court should have required the presence of the examining physician at his hearing. Although this decision will have no effect on the underlying matter because T.S. successfully completed his substance abuse program and the court released him from his delinquency probation, we conclude this case falls within an exception to the mootness doctrine. On the merits of T.S.’s appeal, we hold…