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Highlands County: sentencing outcomes by charge
19,724 charge dispositions in Highlands County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 44.5% 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 Highlands 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 | 3,915 | 58.1% | 274 d | 5% | 0.2% |
| Driver Licenses | 3,293 | 20.3% | 45 d | 35.8% | 0.2% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 1,962 | 52.2% | 274 d | 8.1% | 0.3% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 1,657 | 54.4% | 183 d | 6.9% | 0.3% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 1,455 | 55.7% | 274 d | 5.8% | 0.5% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 1,241 | 33.7% | 90 d | 7.2% | 0.1% |
| Obstructing Justice | 1,212 | 43.2% | 90 d | 4.9% | 0.2% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 702 | 11.1% | 45 d | 49.9% | 0% |
| Department of Law Enforcement | 537 | 57.4% | 2.5 yr | 0.2% | 0% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 425 | 61.2% | 2.0 yr | 8.5% | 0% |
| Fraudulent Practices | 410 | 62.4% | 1.2 yr | 10.2% | 0% |
| Abuse of Children | 387 | 40.8% | 5.0 yr | 9.3% | 0.8% |
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 Highlands 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.