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Madison County: sentencing outcomes by charge
2,924 charge dispositions in Madison County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 30.3% 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 Madison 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 | 851 | 10.7% | 30 d | 34% | 0.1% |
| Drug Abuse Prevention and Control | 463 | 36.9% | 1.2 yr | 12.1% | 0.6% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 237 | 54.9% | 28 d | 10.1% | 0% |
| Obstructing Justice | 222 | 49.5% | 28 d | 13.1% | 1.8% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 204 | 23.5% | 364 d | 21.1% | 1% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 200 | 32.5% | 74 d | 18.5% | 0% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 178 | 38.2% | 50 d | 15.7% | 2.2% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 106 | 11.3% | 11 d | 25.5% | 0% |
| Drunkenness; Open House Parties; Loitering; Prowling; Desertion | 105 | 49.5% | 3 d | 12.4% | 1% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 75 | 42.7% | 2.2 yr | 6.7% | 2.7% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 44 | 34.1% | 49 d | 22.7% | 0% |
| Miscellaneous Crimes | 42 | 52.4% | 10 d | 11.9% | 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 Madison 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.