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Hardee County: sentencing outcomes by charge
6,209 charge dispositions in Hardee County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 40.3% 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 Hardee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Driver Licenses | 1,669 | 18.3% | 32 d | 30% | 1.8% |
| Drug Abuse Prevention and Control | 1,466 | 49.1% | 270 d | 5% | 11.9% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 598 | 47% | 270 d | 7% | 18.4% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 472 | 50% | 90 d | 6.8% | 6.4% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 344 | 48.5% | 270 d | 11.3% | 9.3% |
| Obstructing Justice | 340 | 43.5% | 151 d | 8.2% | 7.4% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 336 | 54.8% | 364 d | 7.4% | 13.4% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 156 | 60.9% | 1.5 yr | 7.7% | 6.4% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 116 | 11.2% | 60 d | 19.8% | 6% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 112 | 39.3% | 152 d | 6.3% | 10.7% |
| Fish and Wildlife Conservation | 82 | 11% | — | 13.4% | 57.3% |
| Drunkenness; Open House Parties; Loitering; Prowling; Desertion | 66 | 45.5% | 36 d | 3% | 12.1% |
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 Hardee 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.