National Center for State Courts issues roadmap for managing competency dockets
The National Center for State Courts published "Competence to Stand Trial: A Roadmap for State Courts," a 2025 guidance document laying out concrete steps courts can take to manage competency dockets and restoration timelines, continuing the push toward systemic fixes to the national backlog that its 2022 Judicial Task Force report had first called for.
The roadmap followed an earlier 2023 NCSC resource, "Reimagining Competency & Restoration," which compiled promising state practices — together the two documents represent the most current national practitioner-facing guidance available on the topic as of this backfill.
Source: Competence to Stand Trial: A Roadmap for State Courts — National Center for State Courts
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