Q: how much time will my fourteen-year-old daughter get in Utah for allegedly assaulting an officer
A: This is a Juvenile law question - repost in that area.
A:
If she received a single charge and she has no previous juvenile history in Utah, she has virtually no chance of being placed in a juvenile detention facility. If you look at Form 1 in the Utah Juvenile Sentencing Guidelines (https://justice.utah.gov/Sentencing/Guidelines/Juvenile/JuvenileGuidelines2015.pdf, page 17), you will get some idea of how many violations a minor must rack up in Utah to likely face any "jail" time.
This response assumes there was no serious injury to the officer and the assault was not an assault with a deadly weapon charge.
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