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Under current Utah law, courts must evaluate several financial factors to determine whether someone qualifies as "indigent" — meaning too poor to afford a lawyer and therefore entitled to a court-appointed one. This bill adds a new automatic presumption: if a person is incarcerated in a jail, prison, or other holding facility for at least 10 consecutive days, the court must presume they are indigent without requiring the full financial analysis, though the existing rule still applies for those not meeting this threshold.