Criminal Statutes of Limitations in Utah

Prosecution may be commenced at any time for capital felonies, aggravated murder, murder, manslaughter, child abuse homicide, aiding or encouraging suicide, aggravated kidnapping, child kidnapping, rape, rape of a child, object rape, object rape of a child, forcible sodomy, sodomy on a child, sexual abuse of a child, aggravated sexual abuse of a child, aggravated sexual assault, aggravated human trafficking, child human trafficking, female genital mutilation, aggravated human smuggling, and other listed offenses. Otherwise, a prosecution for a felony or negligent homicide shall be commenced within four years after it is committed; a misdemeanor other than negligent homicide within two years; and any infraction within one year. A felony of unlawful sexual activity with a minor or unlawful sexual conduct with a 16- or 17-year-old has a limit of 10 years from the time the victim reaches the age of 18. Certain listed violent offenses may be prosecuted at any time if the perpetrator is unknown but DNA evidence is collected. The period does not run while the defendant is out of the state.