Second District Court, Farmington. What to expect.
This is Davis County’s felony courthouse. Every felony and class A misdemeanor charged anywhere in the county — Bountiful to Clearfield — is filed here by the Davis County Attorney’s Office, and every appeal from a Davis County justice court is retried here. The Davis County Justice Court and the county jail share the same address, which is why so many people show up at the right street number and the wrong door.
Second District Court, Farmington.
Address, phone, and what this court actually handles.
Same address, three institutions. The Davis County Justice Court (class B and C misdemeanors) and the Davis County Correctional Facility also sit at 800 West State Street. Read the court name on your paperwork, not the street number.
Six things about this court.
Not general advice — specifics that matter in this courtroom.
The felony DUI courthouse for Davis County
A third DUI within ten years is a third-degree felony in Utah. So is a DUI that causes serious bodily injury, and a DUI after a prior felony DUI or automobile homicide. All of them are charged here, and all of them carry prison exposure. Our felony DUI page and DUI-with-injury guide walk through the mandatory minimums.
Class A misdemeanors come here too
A DUI with bodily injury, or with a passenger under 16, is a class A misdemeanor under Utah Code § 41-6a-503, and class A charges are filed in district court, not justice court. The difference matters: a class A conviction means up to 364 days in jail and a record that is harder to clear.
Every justice-court appeal in the county lands here
A conviction in any Davis County justice court — Clearfield, Bountiful, Kaysville, Syracuse, the county court — can be appealed for a trial de novo in this building. The case is tried fresh. That right has a short filing deadline that runs from sentencing, and once it is gone the justice-court conviction is final.
The preliminary hearing is the first real test
Felony and class A cases get a preliminary hearing. The State’s burden is only probable cause, but it is also the first time the arresting officer testifies under oath and the first look at how the blood or breath evidence will hold up. See what happens at a Utah preliminary hearing.
Booking, release, and the first appearance
Davis County arrests book at the Correctional Facility on the same complex. Release conditions, bail, and the first appearance are set from here. Our booking-and-release guide explains the bail schedule, which is set by state law and works the same in Davis County as in Weber.
The license clock does not run through this building
The Driver License Division hearing must be requested within ten calendar days of a DUI arrest. A felony filing, a preliminary hearing date, or a continuance in Farmington has no effect on that deadline.
If you have a date on this calendar.
Three things are worth doing before your first appearance.
Do not waive the preliminary hearing by reflex
Prosecutors sometimes offer a modest concession for a waiver. Sometimes it is worth taking. Often the hearing itself — the officer’s sworn account of the stop and the arrest — is worth more than the concession. That is a decision to make with counsel who has read the discovery.
Request the DLD hearing today
Ten calendar days from arrest, regardless of the felony timeline. We file the request the day we are retained.
Get the blood evidence paperwork early
Felony DUI cases in Davis County usually rest on a blood draw rather than a breath test. The warrant, the draw, the chain of custody, and the lab’s own quality-control records are all discoverable, and all of them have been the basis for suppression. See blood test challenges.