Defense requests competency evaluation for Joshua Gonzales; court sets plea deadline and jury trial dates

Defense counsel told the court that video evidence raised questions about Joshua Gonzales’s competency and requested time to file a competency evaluation. Counsel described video excerpts in which the defendant referred to a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and temporal‑lobe disorder and asked the court to permit an evaluation before Gonzales decided whether to proceed to trial.

Judge Stephanie Boyd directed the clerk to set a plea deadline and a jury trial date to accommodate the request. The court set both the jury‑trial date and plea deadline for January 6, 2026, and accepted defense counsel’s notice that a competency motion would be filed. The court instructed the prosecutor to accept the defense filing and for the parties to coordinate scheduling around the competency process.

The transcript does not show a competency determination on the day of the docket; rather, it records the defense request and the court’s scheduling decisions for pretrial deadlines and trial dates.