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Gadsden County: sentencing outcomes by charge
10,692 charge dispositions in Gadsden County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 0% 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.
Reporting caveat: Gadsden County records a confinement outcome on only 0% of its charges in this data, so its incarceration rate here is a reporting artifact, not a measured outcome, and should not be compared with other counties.
“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 Gadsden 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 2,245 | 0% | — | 40.4% | 0% |
| Violations Involving Checks and Drafts | 1,947 | 0% | — | 65.4% | 0% |
| Drug Abuse Prevention and Control | 1,231 | 0% | — | 52.1% | 0.2% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 1,001 | 0% | — | 27.2% | 0% |
| Obstructing Justice | 753 | 0% | — | 31.2% | 0% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 746 | 0% | — | 32.7% | 0% |
| Miscellaneous Crimes | 463 | 0% | — | 59.4% | 0% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 438 | 0% | — | 39.7% | 0% |
| Drunkenness; Open House Parties; Loitering; Prowling; Desertion | 329 | 0% | — | 45.3% | 0% |
| Driver Licenses | 166 | 0% | — | 38% | 0% |
| Wildlife | 161 | 0% | — | 85.7% | 0% |
| Marriage; Domestic Violence | 157 | 0% | — | 24.2% | 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.
- 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 Gadsden 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.