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Gulf County: sentencing outcomes by charge
3,004 charge dispositions in Gulf County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 61.7% 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 Gulf 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 | 761 | 68.9% | 187 d | 8.4% | 3.3% |
| Driver Licenses | 462 | 65.4% | 30 d | 5.4% | 0.6% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 325 | 56.6% | 176 d | 9.2% | 3.7% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 259 | 35.1% | 90 d | 6.6% | 0.4% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 172 | 64.5% | 364 d | 9.3% | 2.3% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 158 | 73.4% | 1.4 yr | 5.7% | 0.6% |
| Obstructing Justice | 146 | 61% | 61 d | 10.3% | 0.7% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 89 | 75.3% | 30 d | 3.4% | 1.1% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 67 | 67.2% | 105 d | 14.9% | 3% |
| Abuse of Children | 63 | 73% | 3.0 yr | 12.7% | 0% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 59 | 57.6% | 2.5 yr | 5.1% | 0% |
| Miscellaneous Crimes | 51 | 60.8% | 26 d | 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 Gulf 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.