Key legal question
Whether the appeal against the provisional assisted-detention order remained admissible after the death of the person concerned.
Extracted holding
The appeal had become devoid of purpose and interest after the death of B.M.________, so the court took note of that fact and struck the case from the docket.
Extracted reasoning
A valid appeal requires an interest. A post-filing event may render a remedy moot. Since the person concerned died on 2012-02-18, the challenged measure could no longer affect him, and the appellant's remedy lost its object.