Evaluator shortage delays competency cases in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley
Local television reporting documented how a shortage of qualified forensic evaluators in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley region was delaying competency-evaluation turnaround times and stalling criminal cases, a ground-level illustration of the national evaluator shortage described in broader academic surveys.
The story is a useful pairing with the national research on the "competency crisis" evaluator shortage: where the academic literature quantifies the trend nationally, this piece shows what it looks like for a single regional court system.
Source: Shortage of forensic competency evaluators causing court delays in the Valley — WHSV, by Colby Johnson
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