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Hernando County: sentencing outcomes by charge
33,585 charge dispositions in Hernando County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 55.7% 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 Hernando 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 | 8,075 | 67.5% | 244 d | 14.5% | 11% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 5,097 | 46.4% | 213 d | 11.2% | 27.7% |
| Driver Licenses | 3,723 | 41.9% | 30 d | 22.4% | 1.8% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 3,290 | 51.5% | 180 d | 14.5% | 19.9% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 2,487 | 28.2% | 73 d | 11.9% | 3.7% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 2,443 | 76.6% | 90 d | 7.7% | 4.5% |
| Obstructing Justice | 1,319 | 71.2% | 60 d | 9.3% | 8.7% |
| Marriage; Domestic Violence | 926 | 85.9% | 117 d | 3.8% | 3% |
| Abuse of Children | 613 | 49.6% | 5.0 yr | 8.5% | 5.1% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 579 | 63.4% | 60 d | 12.3% | 13.8% |
| Fraudulent Practices | 510 | 55.3% | 1.1 yr | 13.5% | 17.3% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 460 | 46.1% | 28 d | 29.3% | 3% |
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 Hernando 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.