A Butler County Common Pleas Court judge is weighing whether the state violated a defendant’s rights by failing to hold a trial within 365 days of his charges being filed.

Johvian Romir Everett, 26, of Pittsburgh, has been incarcerated for three years after being charged with felony flight to avoid apprehension following a Jan. 19, 2022, traffic stop in Butler. He would eventually be arrested in Pittsburgh about 10 months later on Nov. 27, 2022, for unrelated charges. He has been incarcerated since.

In a two-hour hearing Friday, Nov. 14, before Judge Joseph Kubit, he argued his former attorneys, Joshua Snyder and Michael McFarland, colluded with assistant district attorney Zoe Kecskemethy and the state to continually delay the case to induce a guilty plea by not submitting Everett’s Rule

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