State v. Curry

¶ 1. Defendant appeals the district court's determination that he was incompetent to stand trial, as well as two court orders that required him to be hospitalized for psychiatric examination prior to the court’s final hearing on his competency. We dismiss the appeal as moot.

¶ 2. This ease has a complicated procedural history, which we recount here not because it is a helpful model of the use of the statutory process governing competency determinations and hospitalization orders, but because the background is important to our disposition of this matter. We emphasize that in dismissing this…