A detention hearing scheduled for Monday, Dec. 4, in which a judge would decide whether gay D.C. gym owner Michael Everts should remain in jail or be released while he awaits a trial on a charge of distribution of child pornography was postponed with no immediate date set to reschedule it.
However, records with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, before which the case is being held, show that Everts’s defense attorney later in the day on Dec.
4 filed a motion in which Everts waived his right to a detention hearing and requested that a preliminary hearing be scheduled on Jan.
10, 2024. In his motion, defense attorney David Benowitz says the lead prosecutor with the Office of the U.S. Attorney for D.C.