Utah Self-Defense - Assault
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Utah has enacted a stand your ground law which removes the duty to retreat before using deadly force in self defense when a person is in ?a place where [he or she] has lawfully entered or remained.?
Under Utah criminal law, a person may use "reasonable" levels of force to "prevent or terminate another person's criminal interference with real property or personal property." Utah law does not allow a person to use deadly force to defend property (other than a home).
Self-defense laws in at least 23 states (Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee West Virginia and Wisconsin) provide civil immunity ...
An individual is justified in threatening or using force against another individual when and to the extent that the individual reasonably believes that force or a threat of force is necessary to defend the individual or another individual against the imminent use of unlawful force.
A person can defend themselves and use non-deadly force against an aggressor when and to the extent that the threatened person ?reasonably believes? that force or a threat of force is necessary to defend the person or a third person against the aggressor's imminent use of unlawful force.
Utah Criminal Code Definition of Assault a threat, accompanied by a show of immediate force or violence, to do bodily injury to another; or. an act, committed with unlawful force or violence, that causes bodily injury to another or creates a substantial risk of bodily injury to another.
Mutual combat is not legal anywhere in the US.
