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Calhoun County: sentencing outcomes by charge
3,097 charge dispositions in Calhoun County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 47.2% ended in incarceration. The table below breaks the county's highest-volume charge categories into incarceration rate, median confinement, adjudication-withheld rate, and diversion rate.
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.
Sentencing outcomes by charge category
The highest-volume charge categories in Calhoun 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 | Median confinement (when incarcerated) | Adj. withheld | Diversion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drug Abuse Prevention and Control | 828 | 55.9% | 157 d | 14.4% | 0.6% |
| Driver Licenses | 417 | 29.5% | 55 d | 51.8% | 3.4% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 380 | 44.5% | 90 d | 27.4% | 1.3% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 325 | 53.2% | 1.1 yr | 12.3% | 0.3% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 216 | 51.9% | 97 d | 24.1% | 0% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 158 | 23.4% | 364 d | 31.6% | 0.6% |
| Obstructing Justice | 107 | 52.3% | 60 d | 30.8% | 0% |
| Bribery; Misuse of Public Office | 90 | 86.7% | 1.5 yr | 0% | 0% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 86 | 59.3% | 2.5 yr | 8.1% | 0% |
| Abuse of Children | 85 | 44.7% | 5.0 yr | 28.2% | 1.2% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 68 | 48.5% | 60 d | 23.5% | 0% |
| Forgery and Counterfeiting | 64 | 25% | 1.1 yr | 7.8% | 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.
- Median confinement: median maximum confinement term, in days, among charges that resulted in custody; 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 Calhoun 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.