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INTRODUCTION

Appellant William Doug Fletcher was recommitted to Coalinga State Hospital (CSH) as a mentally disordered offender (MDO) pursuant to Penal Code section 29621 for a one-year term, expiring December 14, 2012. He challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support his commitment as an MDO. The term of commitment under the order appealed from expired on December 14, 2012, thereby rendering it impossible for this court to grant any effectual relief to Fletcher. He does not raise any legal issues that have evaded appellate review; therefore, we exercise our discretion to dismiss this appeal as moot.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL SUMMARY

In 1995, when Fletcher was 21 years old, he was convicted of misdemeanor annoying or molesting a child based upon his following a 15-year-old girl for approximately two years in order to be “close” to the girl. In 1996 Fletcher tried to kiss a 12-year-old girl in the laundry room of his apartment complex. He told the girl he wanted “to do her.” Also in 1996, Fletcher asked a neighbor’s five-year-old daughter to come to his apartment, where he asked the child to lie down on the bed. Fletcher then kissed the child and afterwards pulled down his…