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Is this plea in range?
A veteran knows the county's going rate cold. A newer attorney has to build that read one case at a time. This free sample is a shortcut: pick a charge category, and optionally a county, and see a taste of what Florida courts actually recorded, so you can weigh an offer against the observed distribution instead of a gut feeling. It draws on 3,937,598 charge dispositions across 66 counties of public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data. The sample shows the top county rows; the full jurisdiction-matched per-county breakdown and the filing-ready comparables brief are the paid Florida Sentencing Comparables.
This is a reference for counsel's own judgment. It is not legal advice, and it is not a prediction or a recommendation about any offer. It reports aggregates over past records; it does not say whether any particular offer is good, bad, or fair, and it does not tell you to accept or reject anything.
“Incarceration” means a sentence to county jail or state prison; the rate is the share of charges with a recorded jail or prison sentence, a lower bound, because the source confinement field is blank on 56% of charges statewide. Dispositions span 1951-12-22 to 2026-06-20; the figures are not time-normalized. Aggregate data as of 2026-06-21. No individual is identified; the source has no judge identifier, so no claim is made about any individual judge.
This is a sample of the going rate
The sample below shows the top county rows for a charge. The full jurisdiction-matched per-county comparables and the filing-ready brief, with every figure cited to the underlying public record, are the Florida Sentencing Comparables.
See Florida sentencing comparables →Look up the going rate
Sample: showing the top 3 of 15 county rows for this charge category.
Each row below is a recorded per-county outcome for this charge category, shown with its own charge count. This is a sample: it shows the top few highest-volume county rows, not the full per-county breakdown. There is no combined or statewide figure here, and no row is a prediction for any specific case. The numbers describe what Florida courts recorded, not what any offer should be.
| County | Charges | Incarceration | Confinement distribution (when incarcerated) | Adj. withheld | Diversion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miami-Dade County | 64,131 | 62.3% | median 75 d · mean 1.1 yr · mode 364 d · mid-50% 21 d–364 d | 31% | 2.2% |
| Volusia County | 57,557 | 79.1% | median 65 d · mean 1.0 yr · mode 2 d · mid-50% 13 d–364 d | 28.9% | 2.2% |
| Bay County | 57,358 | 48.7% | median 364 d · mean 1.5 yr · mode 1 d · mid-50% 30 d–2.0 yr | 18.8% | 5.7% |
This is a sample
12 more county rows are recorded for this charge category. The full jurisdiction-matched per-county breakdown, and a filing-ready comparables brief with every figure cited to the underlying public record, are the Florida Sentencing Comparables.
See the full Florida sentencing comparables →“Confinement distribution” is the median, mean, mode, and middle-50% range of the maximum confinement term among only the charges in that county and category that resulted in custody; where the incarceration rate is low it describes a small subset, not the category as a whole. It reads “—” where the cell is suppressed (under 10 incarcerated charges) or too sparse to be representative. These figures are not adjusted for criminal history, offense severity within a category, plea terms, or case facts.
How to read this, and what it does not say
- Descriptive, not prescriptive. These figures describe recorded dispositions. They are not adjusted for criminal history, offense severity within a category, plea posture, or case facts. A category rate is a baseline for your own read, not a prediction for any specific case and not a judgment about whether any offer is in or out of range.
- Source: public Florida FDLE Criminal Justice Data Transparency (CJDT) Clerk-of-Court case data, grouped by county and FDLE statute-chapter grouping. Snapshot: 2026-06-21. Every figure is reproducible from a published script against the source data.
- “Incarceration” defined: a charge counts as incarceration only when its sentence is a sentence to county jail or state prison. The rate is a lower bound, because the source confinement field is blank on 56% of charges statewide and counties populate it inconsistently, so cross-county comparison is confounded by reporting completeness.
- Per-county rows, never a merged figure. Each row is a county's own recorded outcome with its own charge count. The tool does not average counties together, so no synthesized statewide number appears. This free sample shows only the top few highest-volume county rows; the full per-county breakdown is the paid Florida Sentencing Comparables.
- No judge dimension. The source data contains no judge identifier. Nothing here describes how any individual judge sentences.
This is a sample. Get the full per-county comparables.
The sample above shows the top county rows for a charge, a taste of the going rate. When you need the full jurisdiction-matched per-county breakdown for a specific charge in a specific Florida county, with every figure cited to the underlying public record and a filing-ready comparables brief, BenchRecon's Florida Sentencing Comparables build it for you.