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Lafayette County: sentencing outcomes by charge
1,093 charge dispositions in Lafayette County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data, 17.6% drew a recorded jail or prison sentence. The table below breaks the county's highest-volume charge categories into incarceration rate, median confinement, adjudication-withheld rate, and diversion rate.
“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, since the source confinement field is blank on 56% of charges statewide). Dispositions span 1951-12-22 to 2026-06-20; not time-normalized.
Aggregate analysis, data as of 2026-06-21. Reproducible from public records. No individual is identified; the source data has no judge identifier, so no claim is made about any individual judge.
Explore a charge live
Pick a charge category to see Lafayette County's recorded confinement distribution render live: the middle-50% band with the median, mean, and mode among charges that ended in custody. Every figure is read straight from the same public FDLE CJDT data as the table below. The full table stays available beneath this explorer.
Recorded confinement distribution for Drug Abuse Prevention and Control in Lafayette County.
| Statistic | Confinement |
|---|---|
| Median | 80 d |
| Mean | 350 d |
| Mode | 2.0 yr |
| Middle 50% (p25 to p75) | 33 d to 1.2 yr |
Confinement (when incarcerated): median 80 d · mean 350 d · mode 2.0 yr · mid-50% 33 d–1.2 yr
“Confinement (when incarcerated)” is the median, mean, mode, and middle-50% range of the maximum confinement term among only the charges in this category that resulted in custody, so where the incarceration rate is low it describes a small subset, not the category as a whole. These figures are recorded aggregates for Lafayette County; they are not adjusted for criminal history, offense severity within a category, plea terms, or case facts, and are not a prediction for any specific case.
Sentencing outcomes by charge category
The highest-volume charge categories in Lafayette County. “Median confinement (when incarcerated)” is the typical maximum term among only the charges in that category that resulted in custody, so where the incarceration rate is low, that median describes a small subset of the category's charges, not a typical outcome for the category as a whole. It reads “—” where fewer than 10 charges in that category were incarcerated, or where the category's incarceration rate is too low for the median to be representative.
| Charge category | Charges | Incarceration | Confinement distribution (when incarcerated) | Adj. withheld | Diversion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drug Abuse Prevention and Control | 331 | 19.3% | median 80 d · mean 350 d · mode 2.0 yr · mid-50% 33 d–1.2 yr | 13.3% | 0.9% |
| Driver Licenses | 300 | 2% | — | 38.3% | 0% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 71 | 29.6% | median 2.0 yr · mean 3.0 yr · mode 2.0 yr · mid-50% 203 d–5.0 yr | 11.3% | 1.4% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 66 | 36.4% | median 170 d · mean 1.4 yr · mode 170 d · mid-50% 166 d–1.8 yr | 7.6% | 1.5% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 63 | 6.3% | — | 19% | 1.6% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 58 | 25.9% | median 183 d · mean 3.0 yr · mode 1.0 yr · mid-50% 40 d–1.5 yr | 12.1% | 0% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 53 | 9.4% | — | 18.9% | 0% |
| Obstructing Justice | 34 | 26.5% | — | 20.6% | 0% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 22 | 36.4% | — | 13.6% | 0% |
| General Penalties; Registration of Criminals | 20 | 50% | median 4.0 yr · mean 4.0 yr · mode 4.0 yr · mid-50% 4.0 yr–4.0 yr | 0% | 0% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 18 | 44.4% | — | 5.6% | 0% |
| Homicide | 15 | 100% | — | 0% | 0% |
Methodology & limitations
- 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 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 and counties populate it inconsistently. Cross-county comparison is therefore confounded by reporting completeness.
- Confinement distribution: the median, mean, mode, and middle-50% range (25th–75th percentile) of the maximum confinement term, in days, among charges that resulted in a jail or prison sentence. The spread is shown because a single median is easily skewed; the distribution is what makes a comparable defensible. Reported only where at least 10 such charges exist; charge categories with fewer than 10 charges overall are omitted.
- No judge dimension: the source data contains no judge identifier. Nothing here describes how any individual judge sentences.
- What the data does NOT show: these figures describe recorded dispositions and do not control for criminal history, offense severity within a chapter, plea posture, or case facts. A category rate is a baseline, not a prediction for any specific case. This page reports aggregates only and identifies no individual.
Comparables for a specific Lafayette County charge
BenchRecon's Sentencing Comparables return the outcome distribution for a specific charge in a specific Florida county, with every figure cited to the underlying public record.