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Lake County: sentencing outcomes by charge
33,319 charge dispositions in Lake County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 28.1% 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 Lake 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 | 7,125 | 14.3% | 10 d | 23.8% | 0.4% |
| Drug Abuse Prevention and Control | 5,616 | 43.3% | 150 d | 13.8% | 9.2% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 3,947 | 31.5% | 180 d | 13.8% | 17.1% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 3,692 | 16.4% | 40 d | 14.5% | 0.9% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 2,880 | 28.3% | 304 d | 19.8% | 16.9% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 1,960 | 31.6% | 364 d | 8.2% | 2.6% |
| Obstructing Justice | 1,509 | 18.6% | 60 d | 10% | 6.2% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 1,134 | 11.2% | 10 d | 27.3% | 0.9% |
| Abuse of Children | 879 | 59.2% | 5.0 yr | 6.9% | 3.3% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 575 | 49.7% | 2.0 yr | 14.3% | 8.5% |
| Marriage; Domestic Violence | 563 | 40.3% | 150 d | 3% | 1.6% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 550 | 27.6% | 183 d | 17.3% | 8.2% |
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 Lake 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.