I would suspect that she would be returned to the women’s detention center and that we’d see some sort of update on the data from VineLink indicating a change in her custody status. Either that or we would see another hearing scheduled and show up on the court docket/calendar, presumably her arraignment if she’s been deemed competent now. I’m leaning more towards she’s still been deemed incompetent right now though, if I had to pick one over the other.
Something I’ve said and believed for awhile now is that I think it’s unlikely she’d be able to really fool the professionals evaluating and treating her for such an extended period of time now. The longer it’s been the more I’ve believed that her competency had and did really deteriorate. She was in jail, had lost all her freedom, unable to talk to Chad directly (maybe indirectly through the attorneys) but suddenly had no Chad, no family support, all alone in jail. Similar circumstances can really affect someone’s mental health & I think it’s really possible she deteriorated (and was deemed incompetent from that deterioration). Life as she knew it was all gone, I can imagine what that would do to an “everyday” person let alone somehow who already believed some really fringe religious and nonsensical things.
I’m sure she will be restored, I don’t think she would’ve been able to fake it for this long, and I hope we see her deemed competent soon so that this case can proceed towards justice for the lives lost and all the lives affected by her and Chad.