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Taylor County: sentencing outcomes by charge
3,711 charge dispositions in Taylor County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data, 44.4% 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 Taylor 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 Taylor County.
| Statistic | Confinement |
|---|---|
| Median | 120 d |
| Mean | 360 d |
| Mode | 2.0 yr |
| Middle 50% (p25 to p75) | 32 d to 1.7 yr |
Confinement (when incarcerated): median 120 d · mean 360 d · mode 2.0 yr · mid-50% 32 d–1.7 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 Taylor 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 Taylor 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 | 1,031 | 39.2% | median 120 d · mean 360 d · mode 2.0 yr · mid-50% 32 d–1.7 yr | 8.3% | 0.6% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 555 | 42.2% | median 120 d · mean 1.0 yr · mode 60 d · mid-50% 54 d–1.3 yr | 9% | 0.4% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 459 | 39.4% | median 120 d · mean 1.1 yr · mode 120 d · mid-50% 40 d–1.5 yr | 11.8% | 0% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 333 | 49.2% | median 120 d · mean 1.3 yr · mode 120 d · mid-50% 40 d–1.5 yr | 6.6% | 0% |
| Obstructing Justice | 272 | 56.6% | median 98 d · mean 155 d · mode 120 d · mid-50% 35 d–163 d | 5.9% | 0.4% |
| Driver Licenses | 142 | 85.9% | median 44 d · mean 44 d · mode 60 d · mid-50% 12 d–60 d | 1.4% | 0% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 130 | 36.9% | median 1.0 yr · mean 1.9 yr · mode 3.0 yr · mid-50% 56 d–2.6 yr | 1.5% | 0% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 123 | 51.2% | median 60 d · mean 186 d · mode 60 d · mid-50% 48 d–120 d | 7.3% | 0% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 114 | 31.6% | median 1.7 yr · mean 1.9 yr · mode 3.0 yr · mid-50% 109 d–3.0 yr | 10.5% | 0% |
| Abuse of Children | 71 | 23.9% | median 90 d · mean 1.4 yr · mode 83 d · mid-50% 76 d–2.0 yr | 2.8% | 0% |
| Marriage; Domestic Violence | 60 | 61.7% | median 120 d · mean 133 d · mode 120 d · mid-50% 35 d–126 d | 1.7% | 0% |
| Forgery and Counterfeiting | 55 | 14.5% | — | 7.3% | 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 Taylor County charge
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