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Franklin County: sentencing outcomes by charge
3,839 charge dispositions in Franklin County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 59.2% 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.
Sentencing outcomes by charge category
The highest-volume charge categories in Franklin 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 | 874 | 86.5% | 101 d | 12.4% | 7.9% |
| Fish and Wildlife Conservation | 557 | 6.8% | 60 d | 20.3% | 48.8% |
| Driver Licenses | 534 | 42.3% | 60 d | 10.3% | 40.4% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 347 | 74.6% | 90 d | 12.1% | 12.1% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 267 | 53.2% | 8 d | 15.4% | 16.9% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 213 | 79.8% | 60 d | 2.8% | 8.5% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 181 | 82.3% | 60 d | 9.9% | 11% |
| Obstructing Justice | 137 | 78.1% | 60 d | 5.1% | 7.3% |
| Drunkenness; Open House Parties; Loitering; Prowling; Desertion | 100 | 57% | 30 d | 6% | 15% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 82 | 76.8% | 60 d | 7.3% | 12.2% |
| Miscellaneous Crimes | 72 | 58.3% | 30 d | 12.5% | 16.7% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 67 | 88.1% | 364 d | 7.5% | 4.5% |
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.
- Median confinement: median maximum confinement term, in days, among charges that resulted in a jail or prison sentence; 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 Franklin 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.