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Manatee County: sentencing outcomes by charge
67,189 charge dispositions in Manatee County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 22.1% 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 Manatee 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 | 18,159 | 2.6% | 60 d | 32.4% | 17.7% |
| Drug Abuse Prevention and Control | 12,247 | 42.2% | 364 d | 21.4% | 4.4% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 8,168 | 9.9% | 110 d | 31.6% | 2.3% |
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 6,178 | 27.3% | 364 d | 16.4% | 12.4% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 4,207 | 30.8% | 364 d | 17.4% | 12.2% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 3,757 | 32.9% | 1.3 yr | 9.2% | 2.7% |
| Obstructing Justice | 2,596 | 18.8% | 122 d | 16.9% | 3.6% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 2,138 | 1.5% | 60 d | 31.2% | 21.9% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 1,181 | 57.3% | 3.0 yr | 16.4% | 1.9% |
| Abuse of Children | 1,177 | 61.1% | 10.0 yr | 10.1% | 0.3% |
| Marriage; Domestic Violence | 1,033 | 30.7% | 183 d | 6.5% | 2.5% |
| Fraudulent Practices | 1,015 | 47.5% | 3.0 yr | 17% | 4% |
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 Manatee 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.