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Under current Utah law, a person charged with a crime can request a pretrial justification hearing — a special court proceeding where a judge decides before trial whether the use of force was legally justified, potentially resulting in the charges being dismissed. This bill adds a new condition: if someone used deadly force that killed another person, they cannot access that pretrial hearing unless they reported the incident to 911 or law enforcement within 24 hours. The bill also creates an automatic legal advantage — called a "prima facie claim" — for defendants who did report within that window, meaning the state bears the burden of proving the force was not justified without the defendant first having to build that case.