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Orange County: sentencing outcomes by charge
124,900 charge dispositions in Orange County, Florida, from public FDLE CJDT Clerk-of-Court data — 61.9% drew a recorded jail or prison sentence. The table below breaks the county's highest-volume charge categories into incarceration rate, median confinement, adjudication-withheld rate, and diversion rate.
“Incarceration” means a sentence to county jail or state prison; the rate is the share of charges with a recorded jail or prison sentence (a lower bound, since the source confinement field is blank on 56% of charges statewide). Dispositions span 1951-12-22 to 2026-06-20; not time-normalized.
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 Orange 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theft, Robbery, and Related Crimes | 21,625 | 70.1% | 62 d | 24.2% | 10.6% |
| Drug Abuse Prevention and Control | 20,918 | 83.5% | 49 d | 19.9% | 10.3% |
| Driver Licenses | 17,229 | 16.6% | 3 d | 42.8% | 0.3% |
| Burglary and Trespass | 12,764 | 81.8% | 30 d | 17.9% | 3.1% |
| Assault; Battery; Culpable Negligence | 11,659 | 68.5% | 100 d | 26.7% | 9.7% |
| Motor Vehicle Licenses | 7,388 | 7% | 2 d | 29% | 0.3% |
| Obstructing Justice | 6,753 | 79% | 35 d | 23.2% | 6.8% |
| State Uniform Traffic Control | 4,834 | 48.1% | 2 d | 25.7% | 17% |
| Weapons and Firearms | 4,172 | 71.8% | 169 d | 25.4% | 12.5% |
| Arson and Criminal Mischief | 3,208 | 72.8% | 60 d | 25.8% | 7.7% |
| Abuse of Children | 1,566 | 71.7% | 2.0 yr | 18.1% | 2.9% |
| Fraudulent Practices | 1,298 | 73% | 90 d | 29% | 10.6% |
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.
- “Incarceration” defined: a charge counts as incarceration only when its sentence is a sentence to county jail or state prison. The rate is the share of charges with a recorded jail or prison sentence — a lower bound, because the source confinement field is blank on 56% of charges statewide and counties populate it inconsistently. Cross-county comparison is therefore confounded by reporting completeness.
- Median confinement: median maximum confinement term, in days, among charges that resulted in a jail or prison sentence; 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 Orange 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.