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Florida criminal-defense references, in one place.

Free, source-linked Florida references for the defense bar, the substantive charge statutes, the Rules of Criminal Procedure, the Evidence Code, the DUI and traffic framework, and the full officer-records trail, each reproduced verbatim from its official source. Pull the officer who testifies, then build the rest of the case around the record.

Charges, procedure & evidence

Officer records

Records access

Charge statutes

Tools

  • Criminal Punishment Code scoresheet calculator

    Enter the scoresheet factors and see the total sentence points and the lowest permissible sentence, computed verbatim from Fla. Stat. § 921.0024. Free.

  • Speedy-trial deadline calculator

    Enter the charge class and the charge date, or a Demand for Speedy Trial, and see the speedy-trial expiration, the demand window, and the end of the mandatory 30-day recapture window, computed verbatim from Fla. R. Crim. P. 3.191. Free.

  • Rule 3.850 postconviction deadline calculator

    Select the applicable Rule 3.850(b) branch and enter the trigger date to see the closing date: the general 2-year bar, the three exceptions, or the illegal-sentence path. Computed from verbatim Rule 3.850 text. Free.

  • Embed a free tool on your firm's site

    Add the officer-discipline lookup or the scoresheet calculator to your own website with one line of HTML. Free, no API key.

Florida data studies

  • Florida officer-discipline data

    FDLE/CJSTC discipline records across all Florida agencies — revocations, suspensions, and crimen-falsi offenses, searchable by agency.

  • Florida officer-discipline outcomes by misconduct type

    How often each misconduct category ends in certification revocation; excessive force is the least-decertified category, from FDLE/CJSTC records. Descriptive category-level rates; not causal and not a prediction.

  • Florida sentencing outcomes by county and charge

    3.9 million charges analyzed — actual vs. guideline sentences by county, offense type, and demographic, drawn from FDLE CJDT clerk-of-court data.

  • Florida felony sentencing scoresheets

    How often sentences fall below the guideline floor, by charge and county — FDC scoresheet data, searchable and downloadable.

  • Florida case outcomes by type of representation

    Descriptive, uncontrolled outcome rates by type of representation (public defender, private, self-represented, court-assigned) and charge — FDLE CJDT clerk-of-court data. Not a quality ranking; selection effects dominate.

  • Florida case disposition outcomes by charge and circuit

    How often charges are dismissed, diverted, acquitted, or convicted — by charge category and judicial circuit, from FDLE CJDT clerk-of-court data. Descriptive court-disposition rates; not a circuit or office ranking and not a drop-rate prediction.

  • Florida adjudication-withheld rates by charge and county

    Of the charges a Florida court adjudicated, how often it withheld adjudication instead of entering a conviction — by charge category, county, and offense level, from FDLE CJDT clerk-of-court data. Descriptive rates; not a county leniency ranking and not a prediction.

  • The financial cost of a Florida conviction

    Recorded court costs, fines, and restitution on Florida charges — the median and 25th-to-75th percentile dollar amounts by charge category and county, from FDLE CJDT clerk-of-court data. Descriptive distributions; not a county-cost ranking and not a prediction of what a defendant will owe.

  • Is this plea in range?

    Pick a charge and county to read the recorded Florida sentencing-outcome distribution from FDLE CJDT clerk-of-court data. A descriptive going-rate reference, not a prediction.

  • Florida sentencing outcomes by defendant age band

    Recorded incarceration rate and confinement-term spread by defendant age band, with a youthful-offender (Fla. Stat. 958) context cut at age 21, from FDLE CJDT clerk-of-court data. Descriptive; not causal, not a prediction, and not a claim about age bias.

  • Citable facts from these studies

    Each study's headline statistic as a standalone, dated, primary-source-cited claim, ready to quote with its FDLE or USSC source and date attached.

Start with the officer

Run the officer testifying against your client.

BenchRecon's Officer Lookup searches a Florida officer's FDLE/CJSTC and incident-ledger record free, each row cited to its public source. The $147 brief turns it into a filing-ready, citable deliverable with the records-demand path attached.