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Desoto County: sentencing outcomes by charge
11,061 charge dispositions in Desoto County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 31.4% 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 Desoto 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 | 3,116 | 40.8% | 1.0 yr | 23.1% | 0% |
| Driver Licenses | 2,525 | 6.3% | 116 d | 47.7% | 0% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 778 | 41.3% | 1.2 yr | 14% | 0% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 617 | 22.9% | 364 d | 19.6% | 0% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 582 | 39.9% | 2.2 yr | 15.1% | 0% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 581 | 38.7% | 2.8 yr | 12.9% | 0% |
| Obstructing Justice | 491 | 27.9% | 269 d | 16.5% | 0% |
| Abuse of Children | 344 | 54.7% | 5.5 yr | 6.4% | 0% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 327 | 5.5% | 60 d | 40.4% | 0% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 195 | 66.2% | 3.0 yr | 12.3% | 0% |
| Fraudulent Practices | 191 | 57.1% | 1.5 yr | 14.7% | 0% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 140 | 35% | 1.5 yr | 15.7% | 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 Desoto 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.